different between eagerness vs verve

English

Alternative forms

• eagreness (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English egernesse, egrenesse; equivalent to eager +? -ness.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?i??n?s/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?i???n?s/
• Hyphenation: ea?ger?ness

Noun

eagerness (usually uncountable, plural eagernesses)

1. The state or quality of being eager; ardent desire.
   • 1909: Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden

     The things he had to tell about...were enough to make you almost tremble with excitement, when you heard all the intimate details from an animal charmer and realized with what thrilling eagerness and anxiety the whole busy underworld was working.

2. (obsolete) Tartness; sourness

Translations

Anagrams

• Gerasenes, eagreness, green seas, sea greens

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French verve (“rapture, animation, spirit, caprice, whim”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /v??(r)v/
• Rhymes: -??(r)v

Noun

verve (uncountable)

1. Rapture, enthusiasm, spirit, vigour, especially of imagination such as that which animates a poet, artist, or musician, in composing or performing.

Translations

Further reading

• verve in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• verve in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

• vever

Dutch

Verb

verve

1. (archaic) singular present subjunctive of verven

French

Etymology

Probably from Late Latin verva, alteration of the plural of Latin verbum. Doublet of verbe.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /v??v/

Noun

verve f (plural verves)

1. eloquence
2. verve, brio

Descendants

• ? English: verve
• ? German: Verve
• ? Italian: verve

Further reading

• “verve” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Hungarian

Etymology

ver (“to beat”) +? -ve (adverbial-participle suffix)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?v?rv?]
• Hyphenation: ver?ve
• Rhymes: -v?

Participle

verve

1. adverbial participle of ver

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from French verve.

Noun

verve f (invariable)

1. verve

   Synonyms: brio, estro, vivacità

Norwegian Nynorsk

Alternative forms

• verva (a-infintive)

Etymology

From Old Norse hverfa, with influence from Middle Low German werven. Ultimately from Proto-Germanic *hwarbijan?. Doublet of kverve.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /²?ær.??/ (example of pronunciation)

Verb

verve (present tense vervar, past tense verva, past participle verva, passive infinitive vervast, present participle vervande, imperative verv)

1. (transitive) to enlist
2. (reflexive) to enlist, to join a cause or organization, especially military service

References

• “verve” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Anagrams

• vever