different between verdant vs vert

English

Etymology

From Middle French verdoyant, from Old French verb verdier, verdoier, from vert (“green”), from Vulgar Latin *virdis, from Latin viridis.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /?v?.d?nt/

Adjective

verdant (comparative more verdant, superlative most verdant)

1. Green in colour.
2. Abundant in verdure; lush with vegetation.
3. Fresh.
4. Inexperienced.

   a verdant youth from the interior of Connecticut

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Related terms

Translations

See also

• Appendix:Colors

Anagrams

• ventrad

English

Pronunciation

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

Etymology 1

From Middle English vert, from Old French vert, from Latin viridis. Doublet of virid.

Noun

vert (countable and uncountable, plural verts)

1. (heraldry) A green colour, now only in heraldry; represented in engraving by diagonal parallel lines 45 degrees counter-clockwise.

2. (archaic) Green undergrowth or other vegetation growing in a forest, as a potential cover for deer.
3. (archaic) The right to fell trees or cut shrubs in a forest.

Translations

See also

• vt. in heraldic contexts.

Adjective

vert (comparative more vert, superlative most vert)

1. (heraldry) In blazon, of the colour green.

Related terms

• verdant

Translations

Etymology 2

Abbreviation of vertical.

Noun

vert (plural verts)

1. (colloquial) In sport, a type of bicycle stunt competition.
2. A vertical surface used by skateboarders or skiers.

Etymology 3

Abbreviation of vertebrate.

Noun

vert (plural verts)

1. (biology, informal) vertebrate

See also

• Appendix:Colors

Anagrams

• Trev, Tver, trev

French

Etymology

From Old French vert, from Vulgar Latin virdis, virdem, from Latin viridis, viridem.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /v??/
• (Quebec) IPA^(key): /va???/
• (Louisiana) IPA^(key): /væ(r)/
• Homophones: ver, verre, verres, vers, verts, vair, vaire
• Rhymes: -??

Noun

vert m (plural verts)

1. green

Adjective

vert (feminine singular verte, masculine plural verts, feminine plural vertes)

1. green

Derived terms

Related terms

• verdâtre
• verdir
• verger

Descendants

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

See also

Further reading

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

Friulian

Alternative forms

• verd

Etymology

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

Adjective

vert

1. green

Related terms

• verze

Hungarian

Etymology

ver +? -t

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?v?rt]
• Hyphenation: vert
• Rhymes: -?rt

Verb

vert

1. third-person singular indicative past indefinite of ver

Participle

vert

1. past participle of ver

Middle English

Alternative forms

• wert, verte, verd

Etymology

From Old French vert, from Latin viridis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /v?rt/

Adjective

vert (uncountable)

1. (cooking, heraldry) Green-coloured.

Related terms

• vergeous
• vert sauce

References

• “vert, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Noun

vert (uncountable)

1. (law) Any plant having green leaves.
2. (rare, especially heraldry) green

References

• “vert, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Middle Low German wert.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?æ?/
• Homophones: hvert, verdt, vært
• Rhymes: -æ?

Noun

vert m (definite singular verten, indefinite plural verter, definite plural vertene)

1. a host (also in biology)
2. a landlord

Derived terms

• togvert
• vertsby
• vertsmaskin

References

• “vert” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle Low German wert.

Noun

vert m (definite singular verten, indefinite plural vertar, definite plural vertane)

1. a host (also in biology)
2. a landlord

Derived terms

• vertsby

Verb

vert

1. present tense of verta/verte
2. imperative of verta/verte

References

• “vert” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Old French

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /vert/, (later) /v?rt/

Noun

vert m (oblique plural verz or vertz, nominative singular verz or vertz, nominative plural vert)

1. green

Adjective

vert m (oblique and nominative feminine singular vert)

1. green, of a green color

Declension

Related terms

• vergier

Descendants

• Bourguignon: vord
• Middle French: verd, vert
  • French: vert
    • Haitian Creole: vèt, vè
    • ? Wolof: wert
• Picard: verd
• Norman: vaert, vèrt
• Walloon: vert
• ? Middle English: vert
  • English: vert

Walloon

Etymology

From Old French vert, from Vulgar Latin virdis, virdem, from Latin viridis, viridem.

Adjective

vert

1. green