vafer

Latin

Etymology

Possibly related to vabrum, but there is little evidence for this word. vafer could have been borrowed from a neighboring Italic dialect, from earlier *vaber, from Proto-Italic *wasro- (“versatile”), which could be from the root of varius (“varied”), or possibly otherwise from the root of vado (“I go, proceed”).[1]

Pronunciation

Adjective

vafer (feminine vafra, neuter vafrum, adverb vafrē); first/second-declension adjective (nominative masculine singular in -er)

  1. sly, cunning, crafty, artful, subtle
    Synonyms: callidus, cōnsultus
    Antonyms: ineptus, rudis, iners, incapāx

Declension

First/second-declension adjective (nominative masculine singular in -er).

Number Singular Plural
Case / Gender Masculine Feminine Neuter Masculine Feminine Neuter
Nominative vafer vafra vafrum vafrī vafrae vafra
Genitive vafrī vafrae vafrī vafrōrum vafrārum vafrōrum
Dative vafrō vafrō vafrīs
Accusative vafrum vafram vafrum vafrōs vafrās vafra
Ablative vafrō vafrā vafrō vafrīs
Vocative vafer vafra vafrum vafrī vafrae vafra

Descendants
  • → Italian: vafro (learned)

References
  • “vafer”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “vafer”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • vafer in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  1. De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “vafer”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 650
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