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“spring” in Latin
vērspring (season)resiliōto leap or spring back; rebound, recoil, retreat; to start back, shrink from, retreatsaltusA forest or mountain pasture; a pass, dale, ravine, glade.; A defile, a narrow pass; A saltus, a large unit of area equasaliōto leap, jump, bound; to spring forth, flow down; to mount for sexineōto enter, go into; to begin; to have sexual intercoursevermisa wormēmergōto emerge (from the water); to surface; to arise or come forthēnāscorto sprout or spring forth; to arise or be bornoriorto rise, get up; to appear, arise, become visible; to be born, come to exist, originateexcurrōto run out; to sally forth; to project, extend
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
spring s.
The vernal season, ver: tempus vernum (the time of spring). At the beginning of spring, primo vere; principio veris; ineunte and inito vere (the former when it begins, the latter when it has begun): it is early in spring, praevernat (Plin., 18, 26, 65, no. 2, § 239): that happens or is found in spring, vermis: the spring of life, flos primus aetatis (☞ ver aetatis is poetical): the beginning of spring, veris principium; ver primum: a spring day, *dies vernus; *dies veris (☞ species verna diei is poetical): spring weather, tempestas verna; *caelum vernum: it is spring weather, caelum (or aër) quodammodo vernat (Vid: Plin., . 2, 50, 51): warm spring weather, *vernus caeli tepor.
A principle of motion, *elater: *spira e ferro recellente facta; *spira recellens or resiliens. Spring of a watch, *elater horologii.
A leap, saltus, -ūs.
A fountain, (PROP.) aqua saliens (Suet.); saliens (Vitr.): salientes (sc. aquae, Cic., Vitr.).
A source, origin, Vid.
spring v.
Intransitively, To begin to grow, progerminare (Col.): emergere (Cic.): enasci (Col.).
To arise, oriri (general term): scaturire: excurrere, at a place, ex (to bubble forth, of fountains): originem habere (to have its origin anywhere, of rivers): profluere (of fountains and rivers): fluere: manare: proficisci: nasci: gigni: exsistere: erumpere ex aliqua re (figuratively, to have its foundation or ground in anything): sequi aliquid (to be the consequence of anything): Injurious consequences spring from that measure, inutiles res sequuntur illam viam consilii: to spring from another quarter, gigni aliunde: sprung from, natus or prognatus aliquo (born from); ortus ab aliquo (descended from); oriundus ab aliquo (that derives his origin from anybody of more remote descent): to be sprung from a place, from a person, ortum esse ex aliquo loco, ab or ex aliquo; natum esse aliquo loco, aliquo (in respect of the place, the rank, or the person from whom one is derived); oriundum esse ab aliquo loco or ab aliquo (of the place or person from whom our ancestors were descended; hence frequently opposed to natus; e.g., Liv., 24, 6, Hippocrates et Epicydes nati Carthagine, sed oriundi ab Syracusis).
To leap, salire. To spring up, subsilire; exsilire (de); prosilire (a).
To fly with elastic power, dissilire: rumpi: disrumpi. The door springs open, janua se aperit.
Transitively, To burst, rumpere: disrumpere.
PHR., To spring an arch, camerare, concamerare, confornicare, aliquid. To spring a leak, rimas agere. The ship springs a leak, navis rimis fatiscit (Verg.). To have sprung a leak, (omnibus) compagibus aquam accipere; plurimis locis laxari coepisse (in several places). To spring a mine, *vi pulveris pyrii cuniculum discutere: to spring a rattle, *insonare crepitaculo (after insonuitque flagello, Verg.).
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for spring?
- The usual Latin words for “spring” are vēr, resiliō, saltus; also saliō, ineō, vermis. The right choice depends on the sense; see the distinctions below.
Entry from J. E. Riddle & T. K. Arnold, A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon (rev. C. Anthon, New York: Harper, 1864), digitised by Fergus J. P. Walsh, CC BY-SA 4.0; Latin markup adapted by latindictionary.co.