nevar

See also: Nevar and ñevar

Aragonese

Alternative forms

  • nievar

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *nevāre, ultimately from Latin nivem (snow, noun).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /neˈba(ɾ)/
  • Rhymes: -a(ɾ)
  • Syllabification: ne‧var

Verb

nevar

  1. to snow

References

  • nevar”, in Aragonario, diccionario castellano–aragonés (in Spanish)

Asturian

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *nevāre, ultimately from Latin nivem (snow, noun).

Verb

nevar

  1. to snow

Catalan

Etymology

Inherited from Vulgar Latin *nevāre, ultimately from Latin nivem (snow, noun).

Pronunciation

  • (file)

Verb

nevar (first-person singular present nevo, first-person singular preterite neví, past participle nevat); root stress: (Central, Valencian, Balearic) /e/

  1. (impersonal) to snow
    En Toronto sempre neva en hivern.It always snows in Toronto in the winter.

Conjugation

Forms other than the third person are rarely used except in a poetic sense.

Further reading

Galician

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese *nevar (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Vulgar Latin *nevāre, ultimately from Latin nivem (snow, noun).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [neˈβaɾ]

Verb

nevar (first-person singular present nevo, first-person singular preterite nevei, past participle nevado)

  1. to snow

Conjugation

Derived terms

References

  • nevar” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
  • nevar” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
  • nevar” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
  • nevar”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, since 2012
  • nevar” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
  • nevar” in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (2014).
  • nevar” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Latvian

Verb

nevar

  1. third-person singular/plural present indicative of nevarēt
  2. (with the particle lai) third-person singular imperative of nevarēt
  3. (with the particle lai) third-person plural imperative of nevarēt

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

nevar m

  1. indefinite plural of neve

Occitan

Etymology

From Old Occitan nevar, from Vulgar Latin *nevāre, ultimately from Latin nivem (snow, noun).

Pronunciation

  • (file)
  • IPA(key): /neˈβa/

Verb

nevar

  1. to snow

Conjugation

Derived terms

  • desnevar
  • ennevar
  • nevada
  • nevadís
  • nevalha
  • nevalhar
  • nevarrada
  • nevassar
  • nevassada
  • nevejar
  • neveta

Dialectal variants

Old Spanish

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *nevāre, ultimately from Latin nivem (snow, noun). First attested in Alfonso X's General Estoria (see quotation).

Verb

nevar

  1. (intransitive, impersonal) to snow
    • ca. 1275, Alfonso X, General Estoria Primera parte, (ed. by Pedro Sánchez Pietro-Borja, 2002, Alcalá de Henares: Universidad de Alcalá de Henares):
      E cuenta otrossí que los omnes d'aquella tierra que lo catan fallan por cosa provada que de la manera que nieva e llueve en tierra de Mauritaña ó es aquella fuent que d'essa guisa crece o mingua el Nilo.
      And he says, moreover, that men of that land observe, and find it proven, that depending on how it snows or rains in Mauritania, where that source is found, thus the Nile increases or decreases.

Descendants

  • Ladino: inyevar
  • Spanish: nevar

Portuguese

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese *nevar, from Vulgar Latin *nevāre, ultimately from Latin nivem (snow, noun). By surface analysis, neve (snow) + -ar.

Pronunciation

 
  • (Brazil) IPA(key): /neˈva(ʁ)/ [neˈva(h)]
    • (São Paulo) IPA(key): /neˈva(ɾ)/
    • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA(key): /neˈva(ʁ)/ [neˈva(χ)]
    • (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /neˈva(ɻ)/
 
  • (Portugal) IPA(key): /nɨˈvaɾ/
    • (Northern Portugal) IPA(key): /nɨˈbaɾ/ [nɨˈβaɾ]
    • (Southern Portugal) IPA(key): /nɨˈva.ɾi/

Verb

nevar (impersonal, third-person singular present neva, third-person singular preterite nevou, past participle nevado)

  1. (impersonal) to snow (to have snow fall from the sky)

Conjugation

Spanish

Etymology

Inherited from Old Spanish nevar, from Vulgar Latin *nevāre, ultimately from Latin nivem (snow, noun).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /neˈbaɾ/ [neˈβ̞aɾ]
  • Audio (Colombia):(file)
  • Rhymes: -aɾ
  • Syllabification: ne‧var

Verb

nevar (first-person singular present nievo, first-person singular preterite nevé, past participle nevado)

  1. (intransitive, impersonal) to snow
  2. (transitive) to whiten, add white colour to something

Conjugation

Further reading

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