pavasaris

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.[1]

• IPA^(key): [pavasaɾis]

pavasaris m (2nd declension)

1. 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

2. (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

3. (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

• (poetic) ziedonis

• pavasarīgs
• šopavasar, topavasar

• gadalaiks
• sezona

(seasons) četri gadalaiki; pavasaris, vasara, rudens, ziema ^{(Category: lv:Seasons)}

• IPA^(key): [pɐˈvaːsɐrʲɪs]

pavãsaris m (plural pavasariai) stress pattern 1

1. spring (season)