Save Gender Feminine Usage Italian (Rare), Medieval Italian, Spanish (Latin American, Rare) Pronounced Pron. /pri.ma.ˈvɛ.ra/(Italian) /pɾi.ma.ˈβ̞e.ɾa/(Spanish) [key·simplify] Meaning & History Derived from Vulgar Latin prīmavēra "spring". The descendant word primavera is used in Asturian, Catalan, Galician, Italian, Portuguese (and Old Portuguese), Sicilian, and Spanish.