🇵🇹Portuguese Source WordCode: PT

verão

Pronunciation / Transliteration: ve-rao

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Summer/ˈsʌm.ər/
nounadjectiveverbCEFR A1 (Beginner)Top #850 frequency
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🇵🇹 Example Sentence in Portuguese:

"Eu adoro ir à praia no verão."

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    The warmest season of the year, occurring between spring and autumn.

    "We plan to travel to the coast during the summer."
As verb
  1. 1

    To spend the summer season in a particular place.

    "Many wealthy families used to summer in the mountains."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the Old English word 'sumor', tracing back to Proto-Germanic '*sumraz', which is ultimately rooted in the Proto-Indo-European root '*sam-' meaning 'summer' or 'season'. Historically associated with the warmest period of the year and agricultural abundance.

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