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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.

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.

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.