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Dear reader,<\/p>\n

The calendar tells us that the Northern Hemisphere summer is still a few weeks away.  A few moments outdoors confirm that the season is already here. Let’s spend a minute with its names in English and Spanish.<\/p>\n

“Summer romance” (amores de verano,<\/em> in Spanish), a phrase that brings a sigh to many lips.<\/p>\n

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“Summer” is Germanic in origin (Old Saxon sumar<\/em>)… One of the oldest extant texts in English is the poetic hymn to the season, ”Sumer is icumen in” (Summer is here), from 13th century Middle English.<\/p>\n

Spanish verano,<\/em> unsurprisingly, comes from Latinveranum<\/em>; what’s unexpected to modern eyes and ears, though, is that veranum <\/em>could mean either spring or summer.  These seasons, which we differentiate, were historically blurred together—as were their names. Indeed, Spanish primavera,<\/em> for spring, used to mean “early summer”.<\/p>\n

English speakers turn “summer” into a verb and speak of “summering in Maine”; in Spanish, the noun has to be retrofitted to make veranear<\/em>: Antes veraneábamos en la sierra <\/em>(We used to summer in the mountains).<\/p>\n

(By the way, let’s clear up a lingering doubt: the seasons are not capitalized in English unless part of a proper name such as “Summer Olympics”, “Fall Semester”.)<\/p>\n

Kids go to “summer camp”, which in Spanish can be called either la colonia de verano<\/em> or, much like the English, el campamento de verano.<\/em><\/p>\n

Spanish has another word for summer, almost unused except in literary contexts: el estío <\/em>(from Latin aestivum<\/em>), a relative of French été.<\/em> The same root is present in “to estivate” or “estivation” (the latter a hot-weather equivalent of hibernation).<\/p>\n

Finally, dear reader, there must be a “summer romance” that you can recall with a sigh.  Curiously, this phrase, the same as its Spanish equivalent, amores de verano, <\/em>was little used before the 1960s.<\/p>\n

¡Buenas palabras!<\/em><\/p>\n

Pablo<\/p>\n

Copyright © <\/em>2013 by Pablo Julián Davis. All rights reserved. A version of this essay was originally written for the June 9-15, 2013 edition of<\/em> <\/em>La Prensa Latina (Memphis, Tennessee), as part of the regular bilingual column “Mysteries and Enigmas of Translation”. Pablo Julián Davis (www.interfluency.com<\/a>) is an ATA Certified Translator (inglés>español) and a Supreme Court of Tennessee Certified Interpreter (inglés<>español) who also provides custom-designed cultural\/linguistic coaching and training.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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