Verona

See also: verona

English

Etymology

From the (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Italian Verona and the (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin Vērōna.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /vɪˈɹəʊnə/

Proper noun

Verona

1. A city straddling the river Adige in Veneto, northern Italy, and the capital city of the province of the same name.
   • 1591–5, William Shakespeare, The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet (1623), Prologue:

     Two households, both alike in dignity, // In fair Verona, where we lay our scene, // From ancient grudge break to new mutiny, // Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean.

2. A province of Veneto, in northern Italy.
3. A village in Illinois.
4. A census-designated place in Kentucky.
5. A city in Mississippi.
6. A city and town in Missouri.
7. A township in New Jersey.
8. A town in New York.
9. A city and village in North Dakota.
10. A village in Ohio.
11. A borough of Pennsylvania.
12. A city and town in Wisconsin.
13. A female given name

Derived terms

• Verona brown

• Verona earth

• Verona green

• Verona serge

• Veronian

Related terms

• Veronese

Translations

city straddling the river Adige in Veneto, northern Italy

• French: Vérone (fr) f
• Hebrew: ורונה f
• Italian: Verona (it) f
• Latin: Vērōna f
• Marathi: वेरोना (veronā)
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• Polish: Werona (pl) f
• Portuguese: Verona f
• Russian: Веро́на (ru) f (Veróna)
• Venetian: Veròna

province in the Veneto region of northern Italy

• French: Vérone (fr) f
• Hebrew: ורונה f
• Italian: Verona (it) f
• Marathi: वेरोना (veronā)
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• Polish: Werona (pl) f
• Portuguese: Verona f
• Russian: Веро́на (ru) f (Veróna)

Further reading

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Anagrams

• Varone, Verano, avenor

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Catalan

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central) [bəˈɾo.nə]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [vəˈɾo.nə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [veˈɾo.na]

Proper noun

Verona f

1. Verona

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German

Etymology

Contraction of Veronika.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /veˈʁoːna/

Proper noun

Verona f (proper noun, genitive Verona)

1. a female given name

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Italian

Etymology

From Latin Vērōna.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /veˈroːna/

• Audio:

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Proper noun

Verona f

1. Verona (city)
2. Verona (province)

Derived terms

• veronese

Descendants

• English: Verona

Further reading

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Anagrams

• averno, Averno

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Latin

Etymology

Celtic name *Vernomago, from Proto-Celtic *wernā (“alder”) + *magos (“field”).

Pronunciation

Vērōna (nom., voc.)

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /u̯eːˈroː.na/, [u̯eːˈroːnä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /veˈro.na/, [veˈrɔːnä]

Vērōnā (abl.)

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /u̯eːˈroː.naː/, [u̯eːˈroːnäː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /veˈro.na/, [veˈrɔːnä]

Proper noun

Vērōna f sg (genitive Vērōnae); first declension

1. Verona (a city in Transpadane Gaul, the birthplace of the poet Catullus and of Pliny the Elder)
   • 27–25 BC, Titus Livius Patavinus, Ab Urbe Condita Libri, book V, chapter xxxv:

     Alia subinde manus Cenomanorum Etitovio duce vestigia priorum secuta eodem saltu favente Belloveso cum transcendisset Alpes, ubi nunc Brixia ac Verona urbes sunt locos tenuere.

     Presently another band, consisting of Cenomani led by Etitovius, followed in the tracks of the earlier emigrants; and having, with the approval of Bellovesus, crossed the Alps by the same pass, established themselves where the cities of Brixia and Verona are-now. ― translation from: Benjamin Oliver Foster, The History of Early Rome (1919), pages 119–121

Declension

First-declension noun, with locative, singular only.

Case	Singular
Nominative	Vērōna
Genitive	Vērōnae
Dative	Vērōnae
Accusative	Vērōnam
Ablative	Vērōnā
Vocative	Vērōna
Locative	Vērōnae

Derived terms

• Vērōnēnsis
• Vērōnēnsēs

References

• “Verona”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
• “Vērōna”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Verona in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• John Everett-Heath (2017): The Concise Dictionary of World Place Names

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Portuguese

Etymology

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Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ve.ˈɾo.nɐ/

Proper noun

Verona f

1. Verona (a city and province of Veneto, Italy)