different between pity vs verve

English

Alternative forms

• pittie, pitty, pitie (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English pitye, pitie, pittye, pitee, pite, from Anglo-Norman pité, pittee etc., from Old French pitet, pitié, from Latin piet?s. See also the doublets pietà and piety.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?p?ti/
• Rhymes: -?ti

Noun

pity (countable and uncountable, plural pities)

1. (uncountable) A feeling of sympathy at the misfortune or suffering of someone or something.

   • He that hath pity upon the poor lendeth unto the Lord.

   • , Folio Society, 2006, p.5:

     The most usuall way to appease those minds we have offended […] is, by submission to move them to commiseration and pitty.

2. (countable) Something regrettable.

   • It was a thousand pities.

   • What pity is it / That we can die but once to serve our country!

3. (obsolete) Piety.

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Synonyms

• (mercy): ruth
• (something regrettable): shame

Translations

Verb

pity (third-person singular simple present pities, present participle pitying, simple past and past participle pitied)

1. (transitive) To feel pity for (someone or something). [from 15th c.]

   • Like as a father pitieth his children, so the Lord pitieth them that fear him.

2. (transitive, now regional) To make (someone) feel pity; to provoke the sympathy or compassion of. [from 16th c.]
   • 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, IV.11:

     She lenger yet is like captiv'd to bee; / That even to thinke thereof it inly pitties mee.

   • a. 1681, Richard Allestree, Of Gods Method in giving Deliverance

     It pitieth them to see her in the dust.

Translations

Interjection

pity!

1. Short form of what a pity.

Synonyms

• shame, what a pity, what a shame

Translations

Derived terms

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?p?t?]

Verb

pity

1. inflection of pít:
   1. inanimate masculine plural passive participle
   2. feminine plural passive participle

Lower Sorbian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?p?it?/

Participle

pity

1. past passive participle of pi?

Declension

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?p?i.t?/

Participle

pity

1. masculine singular passive adjectival participle of pi?

Declension

Noun

pity f

1. inflection of pita:
   1. genitive singular
   2. nominative/accusative/vocative plural

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