SPRING Copy link • SPRING 1. s. The vernal season, ver: tempus vernum (the time of spring). At the beginning of spring, primo vere; principio veris; ineunte and inito vere (the former when it begins, the latter when it has begun): it is early in spring, praevernat (Plin., 18, 26, 65, no. 2, § 239): that happens or is found in spring, vermis: the spring of life, flos primus aetatis (☞ ver aetatis is poetical): the beginning of spring, veris principium; ver primum: a spring day, *dies vernus; *dies veris (☞ species verna diei is poetical): spring weather, tempestas verna; *caelum vernum: it is spring weather, caelum (or aër) quodammodo vernat (Vid: Plin., . 2, 50, 51): warm spring weather, *vernus caeli tepor. A principle of motion, *elater: *spira e ferro recellente facta; *spira recellens or resiliens. Spring of a watch, *elater horologii. A leap, saltus, -ūs. A fountain, (PROP.) aqua saliens (Suet.); saliens (Vitr.): salientes (sc. aquae, Cic., Vitr.). A source, origin, Vid. 2. v. Intransitively, To begin to grow, progerminare (Col.): emergere (Cic.): enasci (Col.). To arise, oriri (general term): scaturire: excurrere, at a place, ex (to bubble forth, of fountains): originem habere (to have its origin anywhere, of rivers): profluere (of fountains and rivers): fluere: manare: proficisci: nasci: gigni: exsistere: erumpere ex aliqua re (figuratively, to have its foundation or ground in anything): sequi aliquid (to be the consequence of anything): Injurious consequences spring from that measure, inutiles res sequuntur illam viam consilii: to spring from another quarter, gigni aliunde: sprung from, natus or prognatus aliquo (born from); ortus ab aliquo (descended from); oriundus ab aliquo (that derives his origin from anybody of more remote descent): to be sprung from a place, from a person, ortum esse ex aliquo loco, ab or ex aliquo; natum esse aliquo loco, aliquo (in respect of the place, the rank, or the person from whom one is derived); oriundum esse ab aliquo loco or ab aliquo (of the place or person from whom our ancestors were descended; hence frequently opposed to natus; e.g., Liv., 24, 6, Hippocrates et Epicydes nati Carthagine, sed oriundi ab Syracusis). To leap, salire. To spring up, subsilire; exsilire (de); prosilire (a). To fly with elastic power, dissilire: rumpi: disrumpi. The door springs open, janua se aperit. Transitively, To burst, rumpere: disrumpere. PHR., To spring an arch, camerare, concamerare, confornicare, aliquid. To spring a leak, rimas agere. The ship springs a leak, navis rimis fatiscit (Verg.). To have sprung a leak, (omnibus) compagibus aquam accipere; plurimis locis laxari coepisse (in several places). To spring a mine, *vi pulveris pyrii cuniculum discutere: to spring a rattle, *insonare crepitaculo (after insonuitque flagello, Verg.).