nevar

• nievar

From Vulgar Latin *nevāre, ultimately from Latin nivem (“snow”, noun).

• IPA^(key): /neˈba(ɾ)/
• Syllabification: ne‧var
• Rhymes: -a(ɾ)

nevar

1. to snow

• “nevar”, in Aragonario, diccionario castellano–aragonés (in Spanish)

• ñevar

From Vulgar Latin *nevāre, ultimately from Latin nivem (“snow”, noun).

nevar

1. to snow

• nieve

Inherited from Vulgar Latin *nevāre, ultimately from Latin nivem (“snow”, noun).

• IPA^(key): (Central) [nəˈβa]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [nəˈva]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [neˈvaɾ]

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nevar (first-person singular present nevo, first-person singular preterite neví, past participle nevat); root stress: (Central, Valencia, Balearic) /e/

1. (impersonal) to snow

   En Toronto sempre neva en hivern. ― It always snows in Toronto in the winter.

Forms other than the third person are rarely used except in a poetic sense.

• neu

• “nevar”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “nevar”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025.
• “nevar” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “nevar” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

From Old Galician-Portuguese nevar (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Vulgar Latin *nevāre, ultimately from Latin nivem (“snow”, noun).

• IPA^(key): /neˈbaɾ/ [neˈβ̞aɾ]
• Rhymes: -aɾ

nevar (first-person singular present nevo, first-person singular preterite nevei, past participle nevado)

1. to snow

• nevada

• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “nevar”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• “nevar”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2025
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “nevar”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• “nevar” in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (2014).
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “nevar”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN
• “nevar”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2025

nevar

1. third-person singular/plural present indicative of nevarēt
2. (with the particle lai) third-person singular imperative of nevarēt
3. (with the particle lai) third-person plural imperative of nevarēt

nevar m

1. indefinite plural of neve

From Old Occitan nevar, from Vulgar Latin *nevāre, ultimately from Latin nivem (“snow”, noun).

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• IPA^(key): /neˈβa/

nevar

1. to snow

• nèu
• aiganèu
• nevós

• neviar (Limousin)

Inherited from Vulgar Latin *nevāre, ultimately from Latin nivem (“snow”, noun). By surface analysis, neve (“snow”) +‎ -ar.

Cognate with Old Spanish nevar.

nevar

1. (intransitive, impersonal) to snow (to have snow fall from the sky)
   • a. 1284, Alfonso X of Castile, Cantigas de Santa Maria, Códice de los músicos, cantiga 309 (facsimile):

     Quand aq̃ſte feito ſoube / o poboo dos Romãos / ueẽron aaq̃uel logo / muit a guiſa de criſchãꝰ / os uũs dando diẽiros / outroſ metend y aſ mãos / ⁊ deitaron oſ cimentos / ben per u neuou deꝰ p̃dꝛe

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   • 1373 January 20, Fernán Martís, “Et Agora leixa o Conto a falaꝛ deſto poꝛ cõtaꝛ da ſeſta batalla [Now the tale stops talking about that to tell about the sixth battle]” (chapter 180), in Cronica Troiana [Trojan Chronicle], translation of Roman de Troie by Benoît de Sainte-Maure, page 77v:

     En outͦ dia demanãa começou odia eſcuro ⁊ ventoſo ⁊ neuaua. Po des q̃ oſſol ſe foy leuãtando foyſſe tirãdo a neue. ⁊ fezo otp̃o moy claro ⁊ moy bõo.

     On another day, in the morning, the day began dark, windy and it snowed. But, as the sun rose, the snow went away and the weather got very clean and good.

   • 1453, Gomes Eanes de Zurara, chapter LXI, in Cronica dos feitos notavees que se passarom na conquista de Guinee; republished as Torquato de Souza Soares, editor, volume I, Lisbon: Academia Portuguesa de História, 1978, page 233:

     E conta que foe achado per homeẽs daquella iterxa que o sguardarom e acharom por cousa prouada / que piella guisa que neua e choue em terra de mauritanya onde esta aquella fonte que per essa meesma guisa crece ou mingua o nillo

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• Fala: neval
• Galician: nevar
• Portuguese: nevar

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “nevar”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “nevar”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antônio Geraldo da Cunha (2020–2025) “nevar”, in Vocabulário histórico-cronológico do Português Medieval (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Fundação Casa de Rui Barbosa

From Vulgar Latin *nevāre, ultimately from Latin nivem (“snow”, noun). First attested in Alfonso X's General Estoria (see quotation).

nevar

1. (intransitive, impersonal) to snow
   • ca. 1275, Alfonso X, General Estoria Primera parte, (ed. by Pedro Sánchez Pietro-Borja, 2002, Alcalá de Henares: Universidad de Alcalá de Henares):

     E cuenta otrossí que los omnes d'aquella tierra que lo catan fallan por cosa provada que de la manera que nieva e llueve en tierra de Mauritaña ó es aquella fuent que d'essa guisa crece o mingua el Nilo.

     And he says, moreover, that men of that land observe, and find it proven, that depending on how it snows or rains in Mauritania, where that source is found, thus the Nile increases or decreases.

• Ladino: inyevar
• Spanish: nevar

From Old Galician-Portuguese nevar, from Vulgar Latin *nevāre, ultimately from Latin nivem (“snow”, noun). By surface analysis, neve (“snow”) +‎ -ar.

• (Portugal, natural speech) IPA^(key): [nˈvaɾ]

nevar (impersonal, third-person singular present neva, third-person singular preterite nevou, past participle nevado)

1. (impersonal) to snow (to have snow fall from the sky)

   Synonym: (Northern Portugal) folecar

• nevado
• nevasca
• neve
• neviscar

Inherited from Old Spanish nevar, from Vulgar Latin *nevāre, ultimately from Latin nivem (“snow”, noun).

• IPA^(key): /neˈbaɾ/ [neˈβ̞aɾ]

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• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: ne‧var

nevar (first-person singular present nievo, first-person singular preterite nevé, past participle nevado)

1. (intransitive, impersonal) to snow
2. (transitive) to whiten, add white colour to something

• “nevar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024