different between verdurous vs verdure

English

Etymology

Originated c. 1595–1605, Middle English, from Old French, from verd (“green”), from Latin viridis.

Adjective

verdurous (comparative more verdurous, superlative most verdurous)

1. Freshly green; verdant; covered with verdure, or consisting of it.

   The hill was blanketed in verdurous grasses.

   The verdurous pasture...

2. Having youthful or new qualities.

Related terms

• verdant

English

Etymology

From Middle English verdure, from Old French verdure.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?v??d???/, /?v??dj?/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?v?d???/
• Rhymes: -??(?)d??(?)
• Homophone: verger (one pronunciation)
• Hyphenation: ver?dure

Noun

verdure (countable and uncountable, plural verdures)

1. The greenness of lush or growing vegetation; also: the vegetation itself.
   • 1610, The Tempest, by Shakespeare

     […] now he was / The ivy which had hid my princely trunk, / And suck'd my verdure out on't.

   • 1813, Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice, Modern Library Edition (1995), page 142

     The five weeks which she had now passed in Kent had made a great difference in the country, and every day was adding to the verdure of the early trees.

   • To her belonged Amber Spring, the water which gave verdure and beauty to the village and made living possible on that wild purple upland waste.
2. (by extension) A condition of health and vigour.

Related terms

• verdant
• verdurous

Translations

Verb

verdure (third-person singular simple present verdures, present participle verduring, simple past and past participle verdured)

1. (transitive) To cover with verdure.

Derived terms

• reverdure

Dutch

Verb

verdure

1. (archaic) singular present subjunctive of verduren

French

Etymology

vert +? -ure

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /v??.dy?/
• Rhymes: -y?

Noun

verdure f (plural verdures)

1. verdure, greenness

Further reading

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

Italian

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ure

Noun

verdure f pl

1. plural of verdura