30.06.26: Level 1 (review); weather (6) vocabulary; verbs [iii] list and links

https://adckl.blogspot.com/2024/05/200424-verbs-describing-weather.html

https://adckl.blogspot.com/2024/05/200424-verbs-describing-weather-2.html

Quāle caelum est? │ What’s the weather like?

grandinat: it’s hailing

nūbilat: it grows dark / it is cloudy

fulgurat: there is lightning / it lightens

lūcet: it is daybreak / it is light

• Sōl lūcet: the sun shines
• Sōl omnibus lūcet (Petronius) ¦ The sun shines on everyone
• lūcēscit: it’s getting light; it’s dawning

Note: -sc- that marks an inchoative or inceptive verb; these verbs indicate the beginning of an action or an action that is increasing:

• frigēscit: it’s getting cold
• calēscit: it’s getting warm / hot
• glaciēs liquēscit: the ice is melting

Discussed here: https://adckl.blogspot.com/search/label/inchoative%20verbs

ningit: it snows

pluit: it rains

• lēniter pluit: it’s raining gently; it’s drizzling
• urceātim pluit: it’s raining buckets

(dis)serēnat: it clears up / it becomes clear

rōrat: dew forms

tonat: it’s thundering

• Iuppiter tonat: Jupiter thunders

ventus spīrat / flat: the wind blows