summer; spring
“«Pensar que en esta vida las cosas della han de durar siempre en un estado es pensar en lo escusado; antes parece que ella anda todo en redondo, digo, a la redonda: la primavera sigue al verano, el verano al estío, el estío al otoño, y el otoño al invierno, y el invierno a la primavera, y assí torna a andarse el tiempo con esta rueda continua” — To think that, in this life, things are to last forever is to think in nothing worthy; rather, it seems that life goes round, I mean, in a circle: the beginning of spring is followed by spring proper, spring by summer, summer by winter, winter by the beginning of spring. Thus time turns around in this continuous wheel.
Synonyms: estío, primavera
Inherited from Old Spanish verano (“spring”), from Vulgar Latin *(tempus) veranum, from Latin vēr (“spring”), from earlier *veror, from Proto-Italic *wezor, from Proto-Indo-European *wésr̥ (“spring”). Compare Portuguese verão.