vert

English

Wikipedia

Pronunciation

• (RP) IPA: /vɜːt/
• (US) IPA: /vɝt/
• Rhymes: -ɜː(r)t

Abbreviation

vert

1. vertebrate
2. vertical

Etymology 1

From Old French vert, from Latin viridis.

Noun

vert (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.

   • 1819: “I understand thee,” said the King, “and the Holy Clerk shall have a grant of vert and venison in my woods of Warncliffe.” — Walter Scott, Ivanhoe

See also

• vt. in heraldic contexts.

Translations

colour

• French: sinople (fr)
• German: Grün (de)
• Hungarian: zöld (hu)
• Macedonian: зелена (mk) (zélena) f
• Romanian: verde (ro)

• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: зелена (sh) f

  Roman: zelena (sh) f

• Slovak: zelená (sk)

Adjective

vert (comparative more vert, superlative most vert)

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

Translations

of green colour

• Dutch: groen (nl)
• French: sinople (fr)
• German: grün (de)
• Hungarian: zöld (hu)
• Italian: verde (it), sinopel (it)
• Macedonian: зелен (mk) (zélen) m
• Polish: zielony (pl)
• Portuguese: sinople (pt)

• Romanian: verde (ro)
• Russian: зеленый (ru) (zelenyj)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: зелена (sh) f

  Roman: zelena (sh) f

• Spanish: sinople (verde)
• Swedish: grönt (sv)

Related terms

• verdant

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.

See also

• Appendix:Colors

Anagrams

• trev
• Tver

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French

Etymology

Latin viridis

Pronunciation

• IPA: [vɛːʁ], X-SAMPA: /vE:R/

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• Homophones: ver, verre, verres, vers, verts, vair, vaire
• Rhymes: -ɛʁ

Noun

vert m (plural verts)

1. green

Adjective

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

1. green

Related terms

• verdâtre
• verdir

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Hungarian

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈvɛrt/

Verb

vert

1. past participle of ver

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Norwegian Bokmål

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ʋæʈ/, X-SAMPA: /v\{t`/
• Homophones: hvert, verdt, vært
• Rhymes: -æʈ

Etymology

Middle Low German wert

Noun

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

1. host

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

Middle Low German wert

Noun

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

1. host

Verb

vert

1. present tense of verta/verte

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Old French

Etymology

Latin viridis

Noun

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

1. green

Adjective

vert m and f

1. green, of a green color

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Walloon

Etymology

From Old French vert, from Latin viridis.

Adjective

vert

1. green