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verna, ae, comm. [root vas, to dwell; Sanscr. vāstu, house; Gr. ἄστυ, city], a slave born in his master’s house, a homeborn slave.

  1. I. Lit.: vernas alere, Plaut. Mil. 3, 1, 104; id. Am. 1, 1, 24; Just. 38, 6, 7; Val. Max. 3, 4, 3; Cael. ap. Cic. Fam. 8, 15, 2; Hor. Epod. 2, 65; id. S. 1, 2, 117; 2, 6, 66.
    In gen. fem., Inscr. Orell. 1320.
    Such slaves were trained up as buffoons or jesters, Mart. 1, 42, 2; cf. Sen. Prov. 1, 6; and v. vernilitas.
    As a term of abuse, Plaut. Am. 4, 2, 13.
  2. II. Transf., a native: de plebe Remi Numaeque verna, Jucundus, etc., Mart. 10, 76, 4; cf.: Romanos vernas appellabant, id est ibidem natos, Fest. p. 372 Müll.
    Hence,
    1. B. Adj.: ver-nus, a, um, native: apri, Mart. 1, 50, 24: lupi, id. 10, 30, 21: tuberes, id. 13, 43, 2: liber, i. e. written in Rome, id. 3, 1, 6.

vernācŭlus, a, um, adj. [verna].

  1. I. (Acc. to verna, I.) Of or belonging to homeborn slaves.
    1. A. Adj.: multitudo, the rabble of slaves, Tac. A. 1, 31; so, plebs, Tert. Apol. 35.
    2. B. Substt.: vernācŭli, ōrum, m. (acc. to verna, I.), buffoons, jesters (postAug. and rare), Mart. 10, 3, 1; Suet. Vit. 14.
      1. 2. vernācŭla, ae, f., a female household slave (late Lat.), Mart. Cap. 8, § 804: filius quem susceperat ex vernaculā, Ambros. Abrah. 1, 7, 65.
  2. II. (Acc. to verna, II.) Native, domestic, indigenous, vernacular, i. e. Roman (the class. signif. of the word): aquatilium vocabula partim sunt vernacula partim peregrina, Varr. L. L. 5, § 77 Müll.: volucres, id. R. R. 3, 5, 7: equi, Plin. 37, 13, 77, § 202: vites (with peculiares), id. 14, 2, 4, § 24: putatio, id. 17, 23, 35, § 208: gallinae, Col. 8, 2, 5: pecus, id. 7, 3, 13: imago antiquae et vernaculae festivitatis, Cic. Fam. 9, 15, 2: sapor, inborn, innate, id. Brut. 46, 172: crimen domesticum ac vernaculum, invented by the accuser himself, id. Verr. 2, 3, 61, § 141; cf. consilium, Plaut. Poen. 4, 2, 105.
    1. B. Natural, common (late Lat.): paupertas olim philosophiae vernacula est, App. Mag. 18, p. 285, 13.

vernālis, e, adj. [ver], of or belonging to spring, vernal: horae, Manil. 3, 258: facies terrae, Aug. Civ. Dei, 7, 25.

vernātĭo, ōnis, f. [verno], the sloughing or shedding of the skin of snakes.

  1. I. Lit., Plin. 29, 5, 32, § 101; 30, 3 8, § 24.
  2. II. Transf., concr., the slough cast off by a snake, Plin. 29, 6, 35, § 11.

* vernĭ-cŏmus, a, um, adj. [vernuscoma], having young leaves: oliva, Mart. Cap. 6, § 570.

* vernĭfer, fĕra, fĕrum, adj. [vernusfero], flowering in spring, spring-blooming, = ἐαροτρεφής: comere verniferis florentia limina sertis (sc. coronis), Mart. Cap. 1, § 1.

vernīlis, e, adj. [verna], of or belonging to a home-born slave (verna), slavish, i. e.,

  1. I. Mean, fawning, servile: blanditiae, Tac. H. 2, 59: corpora, Quint. Decl. 9, 12.
  2. * II. Jesting, pert, waggish: dictum, Tac. H. 3, 32 fin.
    Adv.:
    vernīlĭter, slavishly, servilely: fungi officiis, Hor. S. 2, 6, 108: nimis hoc fit verniliter, i. e. with fawning flattery, cringingly, Caecil. ap. Non. 42, 27: haec ipsa non verniliter, nec figurā, quā, etc., jestingly, jokingly, Sen. Ben. 2, 11, 3.

vernīlĭtas, ātis, f. [vernilis] (mostly post-Aug.).

  1. I. Cringing obsequiousness, servility, Sen. Ep. 95, 2.
  2. II. Coarse, pert, jesting, pertness, Plaut. Fragm. ap. Non. 342, 17; Quint. 1, 11, 2; Plin. 34, 8, 19, § 79.

vernīlĭter, adv., v. vernilis fin.

vernisera, mensalia auguria, Fest. p. 379 Müll. [perh. from ver-sero, auguries belonging to sowing in the spring].

verno, āre, v. n. [ver], to appear like spring, to flourish, be verdant; to spring, bloom, grow young, renew itself, etc. (poet. and in post-Aug. prose; syn. vireo).

  1. I. Lit.: humus, Ov. M. 7, 284: arbores fruticesque, Plin. 22, 22, 46, § 95: caelum, id. 7, 2, 2, § 26: caelum bis floribus, Flor. 1, 16, 3: in Italiā aër semper quodammodo vernat vel auctumnat, Plin. 2, 50, 51, § 136: silva vernat, Sen. Herc. Oet. 380: vernantia lilia, blooming, Col. 10, 270: avis, i. e. begins to sing, Ov. Tr. 3, 12, 8; cf. apes, Col. 9, 9, 1; hence also: ager arguto passere, becomes enlivened again, resounds anew, Mart. 9, 55, 8: anguis, i. e. sheds its skin, Plin. 8, 27, 41, § 99.
  2. II. Transf.: cum tibi vernarent dubiā lanugine malae, get the first down, Mart. 2, 61, 1: dum vernat sanguis, is young or lively, Prop. 4 (5), 5, 57: senio vernante, Claud. Laud. Stil. 1, 316.

vernŭla, ae, comm. dim. [verna], a little or young home-born slave (post-Aug.).

  1. I. Lit., Juv. 10, 117; Sen. Prov. 1, 6; Plin. 22, 17, 20, § 44; App. M. 4, p. 153, 25 al.
  2. II. Transf., adj.: = vernaculus.
    1. A. Jocular, pert, coarse: urbanitas, Petr. 24 (al. vernacula).
    2. B. Native, indigenous: lupus Tiberinus, Juv. 5, 105: libelli, Mart. 5, 18, 4.

vernum, i, v. 2. vernus, II.

1. vernus, a, um, v. verna, II. B.

2. vernus, a, um, adj. [ver], of or belonging to spring, spring-.

  1. I. Adj.: tempus, Lucr. 5, 802; 6, 369; Cic. Sen. 19, 70; id. Tusc. 5, 13, 37; Hor. A. P. 302 al.: aequinoctium, Liv. 33, 3, 5; Varr. R. R. 1, 28, 2; Col. 9, 14, 4: species diei, Lucr. 1, 10: venti, Hor. C. 4, 4, 7: frigus, Ov. M. 14, 763: flores, id. ib. 5, 554; Hor. C. 2, 11, 10: rosa, Prop. 3 (4), 4, 22: agni (opp. hiberni), Plin. 8, 47, 72, § 187: opera, id. 18, 26, 65, § 243: verno tempore, Amm. 15, 10, 4.
  2. II. Subst.: vernum, i, n., spring-time, the spring (late Lat. but in abl. post-Aug.); nom., Tert. Res. Carn. 12 med.; id. Spect. 9; gen., id. Jud. Dom. 2; Amm. 18, 4, 1; abl. verno, in the spring, Cato, R. R. 54, 3; Col. 4, 10, 3; Plin. 19, 5, 30, § 95: anni verno, Amm. 15, 10, 4.