This Thursday, March 20 At 10:01 in the morning, spring was welcomed, which this 2025 lands in Spain with a more unstable time than usual, especially in terms of rains, which leave images of reservoirs and rivers full of water. But much is not known where the word that gives name to the second season of the year comes, often linked to flowers and warm time.
The etymological origin of spring
The word spring is defined in its first meaning in the Dictionary of the Royal Spanish Academy As “season of the year that, astronomically, begins in the equinox of the same name and ends in the summer solstice”, being its antonym the autumn.
The same dictionary of the RAE It shows us the etymological origin of the word, which derives from the Latin “Prima Vera” which means “first greenery”, to the terms of the terms “Primum” becomes ‘first’, and being its first records of the late fifteenth century.
In the meaning of the etymological formation of the word spring, we are already described the characteristic of being the first station in which there is a renewal of nature, with the flowering and green color that is taking prominence after winter with the growth of shoots.
The spring and summer link
The etymological origin of the word that designates the season of the year that makes its entry in March in the northern hemisphere and in September in the south, hides a peculiar link with the following that precedes, summer.
The two share warmer and more pleasant temperatures, as well as more hours of light, and the two have a link, since summer also comes from the Latin “Veranum tempus” that is interpreted as’ summer time ‘or’ times of greenery‘, which takes over the spring also at the etymological level.
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