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English

Alternative forms

• vb., v. (abbreviation)

Etymology

From Middle English verbe, from Old French verbe, from Latin verbum (“word, verb”), from Proto-Indo-European *werd?o-. Doublet of word.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /v?b/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /v??b/
• Rhymes: -??(?)b

Noun

verb (plural verbs)

1. (grammar) A word that indicates an action, event, or state of being.
2. (obsolete) Any word; a vocable.

   • a Verb of the Singular

3. (figuratively) An action as opposed to a trait or thing.

4. (programming) A named command that performs a specific operation on an object.
   • 1995, Adam Denning, OLE Controls Inside Out (page 321)

     You can invoke the Properties OLE verb in many ways. The easiest way is to move the mouse over the border of the control until it becomes only a four-way pointer and then right-click.

Usage notes

Verbs compose a fundamental category of words in most languages. In an English clause, a verb forms the head of the predicate of the clause. In many languages, verbs uniquely conjugate for tense and aspect.

Quotations

• 2001 — Eoin Colfer, Artemis Fowl, p 221

  Then you could say that the doorway exploded. But the particular verb doesn't do the action justice. Rather, it shattered into infinitesimal pieces.

Hyponyms

• See: Thesaurus:verb

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

verb (third-person singular simple present verbs, present participle verbing, simple past and past participle verbed)

1. (transitive, nonstandard, colloquial) To use any word that is not, or had not been a verb (especially a noun) as if it were a verb.
   • a. 1981 Feb 22, unknown Guardian editor as quoted by William Safire, On Language, in New York Times, pSM3

     Haig, in congressional hearings before his confirmatory, paradoxed his auditioners by abnormalling his responds so that verbs were nouned, nouns verbed and adjectives adverbised. He techniqued a new way to vocabulary his thoughts so as to informationally uncertain anybody listening about what he had actually implicationed... .

   • 1993 January 25, Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson

     I like to verb words.... I take nouns and adjectives and use them as verbs. Remember when "access" was a thing? Now it's something you DO. It got verbed. Verbing weirds language.

   • 1997, David. F. Griffiths, Desmond J. Higham, learning L^AT_EX, p8

     Nouns should never be verbed.

   • 2005 Oct 5, Jeffrey Mattison, Letters, in The Christian Science Monitor, p8

     In English, verbing nouns is okay

2. (used as a neutral, unspecific verb, often in linguistics and the social sciences) To perform any action that is normally expressed by a verb.
   • 1946: Rand Corporation, The Rand Paper Series

     For example, one-part versions of the proposition "The doctor pursued the lawyer" were "The doctor verbed the object," ...

   • 1964: Journal of Mathematical Psychology

     Each sentence had the same basic structure: The subject transitive verbed the object who intransitive verbed in the location.

   • 1998: Marilyn A. Walker, Aravind Krishna Joshi, Centering Theory in Discourse

     The sentence frame was Dan verbed Ben approaching the store. This sentence frame was followed in all cases by He went inside.

Conjugation

Quotations

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:verb.

See also

• copula

Anagrams

• brev

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin verbum.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Valencian) IPA^(key): /?v??p/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /?b?rp/

Noun

verb m (plural verbs)

1. verb

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Latin verbum.

Noun

verb n (definite singular verbet, indefinite plural verb or verber, definite plural verba or verbene)

1. (grammar) verb

Derived terms

• verbbøying

References

• “verb” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Latin verbum.

Noun

verb n (definite singular verbet, indefinite plural verb, definite plural verba)

1. (grammar) verb

Derived terms

• verbbøying

References

• “verb” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Romanian

Etymology

From Latin verbum.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [verb]

Noun

verb n (plural verbe)

1. verb

Declension

Swedish

Noun

verb n

1. (grammar) verb

Declension

Synonyms

• kraftord

Hyponyms

• hjälpverb

Descendants

• ? Ingrian: verbi

Related terms

References

• verb in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)

Anagrams

• brev

Veps

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

verb

1. verb

Inflection

References

• Zajceva, N. G.; Mullonen, M. I. (2007) , “??????”, in Uz’ venä-vepsläine vajehnik / Novyj russko-vepsskij slovar? [New Russian–Veps Dictionary], Petrozavodsk: Periodika

English

Etymology

See vert, verdant.

Noun

verd (uncountable)

1. (obsolete, Britain, law) The privilege of cutting green wood within a forest for fuel.
2. (obsolete, Britain, law) The right of pasturing animals in a forest.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Burrill to this entry?)

3. (obsolete) greenness; freshness

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Nares to this entry?)

Anagrams

• RV'ed, RVed, Revd., derv, rev'd

Catalan

Etymology

From Old Occitan vert and its variants (compare Occitan verd), from Vulgar Latin virdis, virdem (compare French vert, Spanish verde), from Latin viridis, viridem.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Valencian) IPA^(key): /?v??t/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /?b?rt/

Adjective

verd (feminine verda, masculine plural verds, feminine plural verdes)

1. green

Noun

verd m (uncountable)

1. green

Derived terms

• bròquil verd
• Cap Verd
• de més verdes en maduren
• oliva verda
• verdura

Related terms

• enverdir
• verger

See also

Estonian

Noun

verd

1. partitive singular of veri

Franco-Provençal

Etymology

From Latin viridis.

Adjective

verd m (feminine singular verda, masculine plural verds, feminine plural verdes)

1. green

Friulian

Alternative forms

• vert

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin virdis, virdem, from Latin viridis, viridem.

Adjective

verd

1. green

Related terms

• inverdî
• verda?
• verdôr
• verdure
• verge

Hungarian

Alternative forms

• verjed

Etymology

ver +? -d (personal suffix)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?v?rd]
• Hyphenation: verd

Verb

verd

1. second-person singular subjunctive present definite of ver

Lombard

Etymology

Akin to Italian verde, from Latin viridis.

Adjective

verd

1. green

Middle English

Noun

verd

1. Alternative form of vert

Adjective

verd

1. Alternative form of vert

Middle French

Alternative forms

• vert

Etymology

From Old French vert, with the d to reflect its Latin etymology, viridis.

Noun

verd m (uncountable)

1. green

Adjective

verd m (feminine singular verde, masculine plural verds, feminine plural verdes)

1. green

Descendants

• French: vert
  • Haitian Creole: vèt, vè
  • ? Wolof: wert

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology 1

From Old Norse ver?ld, from Proto-Germanic *weraldiz.

Noun

verd f or m (definite singular verda or verden, indefinite plural verder, definite plural verdene)

1. alternative form of verden

Derived terms

• verdslig

Etymology 2

From Old Norse verðr

Adjective

verd (indeclinable)

1. alternative form of verdt

References

• “verd” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology 1

From Old Norse ver?ld, from Proto-Germanic *weraldiz. Akin to English world.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?æ?r/

Noun

verd f (definite singular verda, indefinite plural verder, definite plural verdene)

1. (definite singular form) world (human collective existence)
2. (definite singular form) the Earth
3. world, planet

Derived terms

• verdshav
• verdsleg
• verdsmeister
• verdsrekord

Etymology 2

From Old Norse verðr.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??rd/

Adjective

verd (neuter singular verdt, definite singular and plural verde)

1. worth (equal in value to)

Derived terms

• mindreverd

References

• “verd” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Occitan

Etymology

From Old Occitan vert and its variants, from Vulgar Latin virdis, virdem, from Latin viridis, viridem.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?bert/

Adjective

verd m (feminine singular verda, masculine plural verds, feminine plural verdas)

1. green

Noun

verd m (uncountable)

1. green

Related terms

• verdir
• vergièr

Piedmontese

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin virdis, virdem, from Latin viridis, viridem.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /v?rd/

Adjective

verd

1. green

Romansch

Alternative forms

• (Sutsilvan) veard

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin virdis, virdem, from Latin viridis, viridem.

Adjective

verd m (feminine singular verda, masculine plural verds, feminine plural verdas)

1. (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Surmiran, Puter, Vallader) green

Noun

verd m

1. (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Surmiran, Puter, Vallader) green