vernatio

== Latin == === Etymology === From vernāre (“to be verdant, to flourish”) +‎ -tiō (“-tion: forming abstract nouns”), from vernus (“springlike”) + -āre (verb-forming suffix), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *wósr̥. === Noun === vernātiō f (genitive vernātiōnis); third declension sloughing, the shedding of old skin by snakes slough, the skin thus shed by snakes (New Latin) vernation, leafing, the growth of new leaves in spring ==== Declension ==== Third-declension noun. ==== Descendants ==== English: vernation French: vernation === References === “vernatio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “vernatio”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.