verbo

See also: Verbo

Esperanto

Etymology

Borrowed from French verbe, Italian verbo and English verb, ultimately from Latin verbum.

Pronunciation

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• IPA^(key): [ˈverbo]
• Hyphenation: ver‧bo
• Rhymes: -erbo

Noun

verbo (accusative singular verbon, plural verboj, accusative plural verbojn)

1. (grammar) verb

Derived terms

• verba

See also

• (parts of speech) vortspeco; adjektivo, artikolo, adverbo, konjunkcio, interjekcio, numeralo, participo, partikulo, postpozicio, prepozicio, pronomo, substantivo, verbo ^{(Category: eo:Parts of speech)}

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Galician

Etymology

From Latin verbum.

Noun

verbo m (plural verbos)

1. verb

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Ido

Etymology

From Esperanto verbo, from English verb, French verbe, German Verb, Italian verbo, Spanish verbo, ultimately from Latin verbum from Proto-Indo-European *werdʰo- (“word”).

Noun

verbo (plural verbi)

1. (grammar, logic) verb

Derived terms

• verboformo

See also

• (parts of speech) vortospeci; adjektivo, adverbo, artiklo, konjunciono, interjeciono, substantivo, nombro, numeralo, partikulo, participo, postpoziciono, prepoziciono, pronomo, verbo ^{(Category: io:Parts of speech)}

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Interlingua

Noun

verbo (plural verbos)

1. verb

Derived terms

• le Verbo = The Word

Related terms

• verbal
• verbose
• adverbio
• proverbio

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Italian

Etymology

From Latin verbum (“word, verb”), from Proto-Italic *werβom (“word”), from Proto-Indo-European *werdʰo- (“word”), from root *werh₁- (“to speak, to say”) + extension *-dʰh₁.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈvɛr.bo/
• Rhymes: -ɛrbo
• Hyphenation: vèr‧bo

Noun

verbo m (plural verbi)

1. (grammar) verb
   • 1526, Niccolò Liburnio, “La forma de uerbi ſemplici & compoſti [The Form of Simple and Compound Verbs]”, in Le tre fontane‎^[1], page 20:

     Tutti e uerbi Volgari & latini ò ſemplici, òuer compoſti ſono.

     All verbs, both vulgar and Latin [ones], are either simple or compound.

   • 1744, Jacopo Angelo Nelli, “Del modo di conoſcere l'Attivo ed il Paſſivo [How to recognize the Active and the Passive]”, in Grammatica italiana: per uso de' giovanetti [Italian Grammar: for use by young people]‎^[2], Torino: Stamperia Reale, Del Verbo, page 40:

     Quando ſi trovaſſe difficoltà ne' giovanetti in conoſcer, quando il verbo è attivo, o paſſivo, potrà loro farſi oſſervare, nella declinazione [...] ſe la prima perſona, o ſeconda, o terza fa, o ſoffre l'azione

     Should the youths have difficulty recognizing whether the verb is active or passive, they can be made to observe, in the declension, whether the first, or second, or third person performs or experiences the action

2. (theology, religion, dated in other senses) word

   Synonym: parola

   • [90-110] Giovanni [John], Bibbia [Bible], volume Nuovo Testamento [New Testament] (canonical gospel, in Aramaic), Vangelo secondo Giovanni [Gospel according to John], chapter 1, verse 1, line 1–3:

     In principio era il Verbo,
     il Verbo era presso Dio
     e il Verbo era Dio.

     In the beginning was the Word,
     the Word was with God
     and the Word was God.

     (literally, “In the beginning was the verb,
     the verb was with god
     and the verb was god.”)

Related terms

• avverbio
• proverbio
• verbale
• verboso

 

See also

• (parts of speech) parte del discorso; aggettivo, articolo, avverbio, congiunzione, interiezione/interjezione, nome, nome aggettivo, nome sostantivo, numero, particella, preposizione, pronome, sostantivo, verbo ^{(Category: it:Parts of speech)}

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Latin

Noun

verbō

1. dative singular of verbum
2. ablative singular of verbum

References

• verbo in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)

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Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Latin verbō, dative/ablative singular of verbum (“word, verb”), from Proto-Italic *werβom (“word”), from Proto-Indo-European *werdʰh₁om (“word”), from *werh₁- (“to speak, say”), with the extension -dʰh₁ (“to do, put, place”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈʋɛrbɔ/

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• Rhymes: -ɛrbɔ
• Hyphenation: ver‧bo

Adverb

verbo

1. Only used in a verbo (“the main grammatical forms of a verb”)

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Portuguese

Etymology

From Old Portuguese verbo, vervo, from Latin verbum (“word, verb”), from Proto-Italic *werβom (“word”), from Proto-Indo-European *werdʰo- (“word”).

Pronunciation

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈvɛɾ.βu/
• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈvɛɹ.bu/, /ˈvɛʁ.bu/
• Hyphenation: ver‧bo

Noun

verbo m (plural verbos)

1. (grammar) verb
2. (now uncommon) language, use of words

   Synonyms: linguagem, palavra

3. (archaic) saying, proverb, maxim

   Synonyms: ditado, provérbio, máxima

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Spanish

Etymology

From Latin verbum, from Proto-Indo-European *werdʰo- (“word”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbeɾbo/, [ˈbeɾ.β̞o]

• Audio (Argentina)

  (file)

• Rhymes: -eɾbo

Noun

verbo m (plural verbos)

1. (grammar) verb

Derived terms

Terms derived from verbo

• el verbo echar echa la hache por la ventana
• verbo activo
• verbo adjetivo
• verbo auxiliar
• verbo causativo
• verbo copulativo
• verbo defectivo
• verbo deponente
• verbo determinado
• verbo determinante
• verbo factitivo

• verbo frequentativo
• verbo impersonal
• verbo incoativo
• verbo intransitivo
• verbo irregular
• verbo iterativo
• verbo neutro
• verbo pasivo
• verbo pronominado
• verbo pronominal

• verbo recíproco
• verbo reflejo
• verbo reflexivo
• verbo regular
• verbo reiterativo
• verbo semideponente
• verbo sustantivo
• verbo terciopersonal
• verbo transitivo
• verbo unipersonal

Further reading

• “verbo” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.