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Spring is also “seedtime” – the season when seeds are sown. “Without a generous seedtime, there will be an unflowering summer and an unproductive harvest,” wrote Scottish author Samuel Smiles.

The word has also come to mean a time for new development, or the start of a new cultural or political movement, e.g. the seedtime of a revolution.

This is an Old English word for spring, and is where the word “Lent” – the period between Ash Wednesday and Easter – derived from.

“Lencten” is likely connected to the Old German words for long and lengthening, and relates to the season’s lengthening days.

Do you feel a bit frisky at this time of year, as the trees start budding, the birds begin to chirrup and the weather warms? Then you are someone who experiences “vernalagnia”, otherwise known as “spring fever”. This word, which describes a romantic mood brought on by spring, is derived from “lagneia”, a classical Greek word meaning “lust.”

A “blackberry winter” is a colloquial expression used in the south and Midwest regions of the United States. It refers to a cold snap that occurs in late spring, usually May or June, when the blackberries are in bloom.

This is an old botanical term, from modern Latin. Its origin is the Latin word for leaf, “frons”, and it refers to the “leafing season”, or the time of the year when plants first unfold their leaves.

In the spring, plants, trees and flowers begin to “repullulate” – that is bud or sprout again.

The word appears in a poem called “Spring” by 19th century Kentucky poet Madison Julius Cawein: “Old forests, where the gnarly oak stands regnant, Bristling with twigs that still repullulate, And, swoln with spring, with sappy sweetness pregnant, The maple blushes with its leafy weight.”

The Greek name for the swallow was “chelodian”. “Chelidonian winds” are westerly, or south-westerly, warm winds that start to blow around the same time that swallows begin to return in the spring – and perhaps even aid the birds on their migration from Africa to Europe.