different between versify vs verse
versify
English
Etymology
From Middle English versifien, from Old French versifier, learned borrowing from Latin versific?re, present active infinitive of versific? (“versify”), from versus (see verse) + faci? (“make”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?v??(?)s?fa?/
Verb
versify (third-person singular simple present versifies, present participle versifying, simple past and past participle versified)
- (transitive, intransitive) to make or compose verses
- I'll versify in spite, and do my best.
- (intransitive) to tell in verse; deal with in verse form
- (intransitive) to turn (prose) into poetry; rewrite in verse form
Derived terms
- versifier
Translations
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verse
English
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /?v?s/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?v??s/
- Rhymes: -??(?)s
Etymology 1
From Middle English vers, from a mixture of Old English fers and Old French vers; both from Latin versus (“a line in writing, and in poetry a verse; (originally) row, furrow”), from vert? (“to turn around”).
Noun
verse (countable and uncountable, plural verses)
- A poetic form with regular meter and a fixed rhyme scheme.
- Synonym: poetry
- Poetic form in general.
- One of several similar units of a song, consisting of several lines, generally rhymed.
- Synonym: stanza
- A small section of the Jewish or Christian Bible.
- Holonym: chapter
- (music) A portion of an anthem to be performed by a single voice to each part.
Derived terms
- blank verse
- free verse
Related terms
- versification
- versify
Translations
Verb
verse (third-person singular simple present verses, present participle versing, simple past and past participle versed)
- (obsolete) To compose verses.
- c. 1579, Philip Sidney, The Defense of Poesy
- It is not rhyming and versing that maketh a poet.
- c. 1579, Philip Sidney, The Defense of Poesy
- (transitive) To tell in verse, or poetry.
- (transitive, figuratively) to educate about, to teach about.
Etymology 2
Back-formation from versus, misconstrued as a third-person singular verb verses.
Verb
verse (third-person singular simple present verses, present participle versing, simple past and past participle versed)
- (colloquial, sometimes proscribed) To oppose, to compete against, especially in a video game.
Further reading
- verse in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- verse in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- verse at OneLook Dictionary Search
Anagrams
- reves, serve, sever, veers
Afrikaans
Noun
verse
- plural of vers
Dutch
Pronunciation
Adjective
verse
- Inflected form of vers
Anagrams
- vrees
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /v??s/
Adjective
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Noun
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Derived terms
- pleuvoir à verse
Verb
verse
- inflection of verser:
- first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
- second-person singular imperative
Anagrams
- resve, rêves, rêvés, serve
Hungarian
Etymology
vers +? -e (possessive suffix)
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [?v?r??]
- Hyphenation: ver?se
Noun
verse
- third-person singular single-possession possessive of vers
Declension
Latin
Participle
verse
- vocative masculine singular of versus
Middle English
Noun
verse
- Alternative form of vers
Portuguese
Verb
verse
- first-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of versar
- third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present subjunctive of versar
- third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of versar
- third-person singular (você) negative imperative of versar
Romanian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [?verse]
Verb
verse
- third-person singular present subjunctive of v?rsa
- third-person plural present subjunctive of v?rsa
Spanish
Verb
verse (first-person singular present me veo, first-person singular preterite me vi, past participle visto)
- to meet; to see one another
Conjugation
Related terms
- ver
Verb
verse
- Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of versar.
- First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of versar.
- Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of versar.
- Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted?) present subjunctive form of versar.
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