# pavasaris
## Latvian
### Etymology

From pa- +‎ vasara (“summer”), made into a second declension masculine noun (ending -is). Given the inchoative prefix, the original meaning was “beginning of summer” (originally, vasara covered both spring and summer, considered in ancient times to be one season). Cognates include Lithuanian pavãsaris.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [pavasaɾis]
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### Noun

pavasaris m (2nd declension)
* spring (season of the year between winter and summer, from March 21 to June 21 in the Northern Hemisphere, characterized by increasing temperature and by the blooming of flowers)
    agrs, vēls pavasaris ― early, late spring
    vēss, auksts pavasaris ― cool, cold spring
    sauss pavasaris ― dry spring
    tuvojas pavasaris ― spring is coming
    pavasaris sākas, iestājas ― spring is beginning
    pavasaris pienācis ― spring has come
    pavasara ekvinokcija ― spring equinox
    pavasaris aptver to laika posmu, kad gaisa temperatūra paaugstinās virs 0°, bet nav augstāka par 15° C ― spring covers the period when the air temperature rises above 0°, but is not higher than 15° C
* (in the genitive, used adjectivally) spring, typical of spring, used in spring
    pavasara atkusnis ― spring thaw
    pavasara ūdeņi, pali ― spring waters, floods
    pavasara salna ― spring frost
    pavasara aršana ― spring plowing
    pirmie pavasara ziedi ― the first spring flowers
    pavasara mēteļi ― spring coats
    akadēmijas pavasara izstāde ― college spring exhibition
* (figuratively) spring; early stage
    dzīves pavasaris ― the spring of life (i.e., youth)
    Prāgas pavasaris ― the Prague spring (first liberalization period in March of 1968 in the former Czechoslovakia)
    es redzu nākam tautu pavasari! ― I see the spring (= blooming) of the people coming!
    Apjomā J. Alunāna “Dziesmiņas” bija gluži pieticīga burtnīciņa, bet liela tā kļuva nozīmībā: ar to īsti sākās latviešu mākslas dzejas pavasaris ― in size, J. Alunāns “Dziesmiņas” (“Little Songs”) was a quite modest little book, but it became big in significance: with it began the spring of Latvian poetic art

#### Synonyms

* (poetic) ziedonis

#### Derived terms

* pavasarīgs
* šopavasar, topavasar

#### See also

* gadalaiks
* sezona
(seasons) četri gadalaiki; pavasaris, vasara, rudens, ziema

### References

* ↑ Karulis, Konstantīns (1992) “vasara”, in Latviešu Etimoloģijas Vārdnīca‎ (in Latvian), Rīga: AVOTS, →ISBN

## Lithuanian
### Etymology

pa- +‎ vãsara, made into a second declension masculine noun (ending -is). See Lithuanian pavasaris for more.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [pɐˈvaːsɐrʲɪs]

### Noun

pavãsaris m (plural pavasariai) stress pattern 1
* spring (season)

#### Declension
### See also

Seasons in Lithuanian · metų laikai (layout · text) · category :
| pavasaris (“spring”) | vasara (“summer”) | ruduo (“autumn”) | žiema (“winter”) |

### References

* ↑ Derksen, Rick (2015) “vasara”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 492-3