different between very vs verd

English

Etymology

From Middle English verray, verrai (“true”), from Old French verai (“true”) (Modern French vrai), from assumed Vulgar Latin v?r?cus, alteration of Latin v?r?x (“truthful”), from v?rus (“true”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *weh?- (“true, benevolent”). Cognate with Old English w?r (“true, correct”), Dutch waar (“true”), German wahr (“true”), Icelandic alvöru (“earnest”). Displaced native Middle English sore, s?r (“very”) (from Old English s?r (“grievous, extreme”) (Compare German sehr, Dutch zeer), Middle English wel (“very”) (from Old English wel (“well, very”)) (Compare German wohl, Dutch wel, Swedish väl), and Middle English swith (“quickly; very”) (from Old English sw?þe (“very”). More at warlock.

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /?v??i/
• Rhymes: -?ri
• Homophone: vary (in some dialects)

Adjective

very (not generally comparable, comparative verier, superlative veriest)

1. (literary) True, real, actual.
   • c. 1597, William Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part 1, Act II, Scene 2,^[1]

     […] I am the veriest varlet that ever chewed with a tooth.

   • 1611, King James Version of the Bible, Genesis 27:21,^[2]

     And Isaac said unto Jacob, Come near, I pray thee, that I may feel thee, my son, whether thou be my very son Esau or not.

   • 1641, John Milton, Of Reformation Touching Church-Discipline in England, New Haven: Yale University Press, 1916, pp. 32-33,^[3]

     The very essence of truth is plainnesse, and brightnes; the darknes and crookednesse is our own.

   • 1659, Henry Hammond, A Paraphrase and Annotations upon All the Books of the New Testament, London: Richard Davis, 2nd edition, The First Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Corinthians, Chapter 3, verse 19, p. 517,^[4]

     […] they that think to be wiser then other men, are by so much verier fools then others, and so are discerned to be.

   • 1796, Edmund Burke, A Letter from the Right Honourable Edmund Burke to a Noble Lord, on the Attacks Made upon Him and His Pension, London: J. Owen and F. & C. Rivington, p. 30,^[5]

     I looked on the consideration of publick service, or publick ornament, to be real and very justice: and I ever held, a scanty and penurious justice to partake of the nature of a wrong.

   • 1855, Chambers's Journal, page 257:

     […]  : he has become a very democrat. He disdains not to be seen in the back-parlour of the petty tradesman, or the cleanly cottage of the intelligent mechanic. He raises his voice in the cause of progress; […]

   • Turning back, then, toward the basement staircase, she began to grope her way through blinding darkness, but had taken only a few uncertain steps when, of a sudden, she stopped short and for a little stood like a stricken thing, quite motionless save that she quaked to her very marrow in the grasp of a great and enervating fear.
2. The same; identical.
3. With limiting effect: mere.
   • 2004, Paul Campos, The Obesity Myth: Why America's Obsession with Weight is Hazardous to Your Health, Penguin (?ISBN):

     Given the degree of fear and loathing inspired by the very thought of a fat body in America today, it is important to emphasize that all of the medical information in the counterfactual world I have just sketched is itself quite factual.

Usage notes

• very is used exclusively attributively and never predicatively.

Synonyms

• (same, identical): ilk (Scotland, Northern England), selfsame

Translations

Adverb

very (not comparable)

1. To a great extent or degree.

   Synonyms: greatly, drastically, extremely

   • Then his sallow face brightened, for the hall had been carefully furnished, and was very clean. ¶ There was a neat hat-and-umbrella stand, and the stranger's weary feet fell soft on a good, serviceable dark-red drugget, which matched in colour the flock-paper on the walls.
2. Conforming to fact, reality or rule; true.

   Synonyms: truly, actually, authentically

3. (with superlatives) Used to firmly establish that nothing else surpasses in some respect.

Usage notes

• When used in their senses as degree adverbs, "very" and "too" never modify verbs (except in some dialects influenced by Chinese: see citations).

Synonyms

• (to a great extent): ever so, main (dialectal), mighty, sore (archaic), swith (dialectal), way too, eminently

Translations

Anagrams

• ev'ry

Malagasy

Adjective

very

1. lost
2. (archaic) enslaved

Middle English

Alternative forms

• verai, veray, verra, verray, verre, verrei, verrey, verri, verry
• werai, werrai, wery

Etymology

Borrowed from Old French verai.

Adjective

very (comparative verier)

1. true

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:very.

Adverb

very

1. very

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