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出典:『Wiktionary』 (2026/03/18 19:56 UTC 版)
Unknown. There is no regular source of morpheme-medial -f- in Latin words inherited from Proto-Italic, which suggests that this word was borrowed, possibly from a non-Latin Italic language. There is a single attestation of a potential native Latin cognate *vaber in the form vabrum, found alongside "varium" and "multiforme" in a gloss to Isidore. These both can be derived from a common Proto-Italic *wafro-. This in turn could go back either to earlier *wasro-, sharing a root *was- with varius (“varied”), or alternatively to earlier *waθro-, with a root *waθ- shared with vādō (“to go, proceed”) and vadum from Proto-Indo-European *weh₂dʰ-.
vafer (feminine vafra, neuter vafrum, adverb vafrē); first/second-declension adjective (nominative masculine singular in -er)
First/second-declension adjective (nominative masculine singular in -er).
| singular | plural | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| masculine | feminine | neuter | masculine | feminine | neuter | ||
| nominative | vafer | vafra | vafrum | vafrī | vafrae | vafra | |
| genitive | vafrī | vafrae | vafrī | vafrōrum | vafrārum | vafrōrum | |
| dative | vafrō | vafrae | vafrō | vafrīs | |||
| accusative | vafrum | vafram | vafrum | vafrōs | vafrās | vafra | |
| ablative | vafrō | vafrā | vafrō | vafrīs | |||
| vocative | vafer | vafra | vafrum | vafrī | vafrae | vafra | |