verdura

See also: Verdura and verdură

Asturian

Etymology

verde +‎ -ura.

Noun

verdura f (plural verdures)

1. vegetable
2. green, greenness

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Catalan

Etymology

From verd +‎ -ura or Vulgar Latin *virdūra.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic) IPA^(key): /vəɾˈdu.ɾə/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /bərˈdu.ɾə/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /veɾˈdu.ɾa/

• Audio (Catalonia)

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Noun

verdura f (plural verdures)

1. vegetable

Further reading

• “verdura” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “verdura”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2022
• “verdura” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “verdura” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

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Galician

Praza da Verdura, Pontevedra, ancient place of a greens market

Etymology

Attested since circa 1300. From verde (“green”) +‎ -ura.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [beɾˈðuɾɐ]

Noun

verdura f (plural verduras)

1. greenness; greenery; verdure
   • c1300, R. Martínez López (ed.), General Estoria. Versión gallega del siglo XIV. Oviedo: Archivum, page 191:

     Et diz Jeronymo que ẽno tẽpo do emperador Teodosio que verde era ajnda esta aruore, et despoys que se secou, et pero que perdera a verdura, que bõo era o fuste del pera moytas cousas de [meeziñas].

     And Jerome says that in times of emperor Theodosius this tree was still green, and that it later dried up, and that even if it had lost its verdure, its wood was good for many medicinal things

   Synonym: verdor

2. (countable or uncountable) greens; vegetable, especially a leafy vegetable

   Synonym: verza

References

• “erdura” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
• “verdura” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “verdura” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “verdura” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

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Italian

Etymology

From verde (“green”) +‎ -ura (“noun-forming suffix”), or from Vulgar Latin *virdūra.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /verˈdu.ra/

• Audio

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• Rhymes: -ura
• Hyphenation: ver‧dù‧ra

Noun

verdura f (plural verdure)

1. vegetable(s)

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Old Occitan

Etymology

vert +‎ -ura.

Noun

verdura f (oblique plural verduras, nominative singular verdura, nominative plural verduras)

1. greenery; plant life

References

• von Wartburg, Walther (1928–2002), “viridis”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume 140, page 509

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Portuguese

Etymology

Verde (“green”) +‎ -ura (“-ness”), with the first element from Old Portuguese verde, from Latin viridis (“green”). Alternately, from Vulgar Latin *virdūra.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): (Brazil) /veʁˈdu.ɾɐ/, [veɦˈdu.ɾɐ]

• IPA^(key): (Brazil) /veʁˈdu.ɾɐ/, [veɦˈdu.ɾɐ]
  • IPA^(key): (São Paulo) /veɾˈdu.ɾɐ/, [veɾˈdu.ɾɐ]
  • IPA^(key): (Rio de Janeiro) /veʁˈdu.ɾɐ/, [veʁˈdu.ɾɐ]

• IPA^(key): (Portugal) /vɨɾˈdu.ɾɐ/, [vɨɾˈðu.ɾɐ]

• (South Brazil) IPA^(key): /veɻ.ˈdu.ɾa/
• Hyphenation: ver‧du‧ra
• Rhymes: -uɾɐ

Noun

verdura f (plural verduras)

1. vegetable (a plant raised for some edible part of it, excluding any plant considered to be a fruit, grain, or spice in the culinary sense)
2. (uncountable) greenness (state or quality of being green)
3. (uncountable) unripeness (state or quality of being unripe)

Synonyms

• (vegetable): hortaliça legume, vegetal
• (greenness): verdor, viridez (poetic)

Antonyms

• (unripeness): madureza

Related terms

• verde
• verdureiro

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Spanish

Etymology

From Old Spanish verdura, from verde (“green”) + -ura (noun-forming suffix). Alternately, from Vulgar Latin *virdūra.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /beɾˈduɾa/, [beɾˈð̞u.ɾa]

• Audio (Colombia)

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• Rhymes: -uɾa

Noun

verdura f (plural verduras)

1. vegetable
2. greenness, verdancy

Related terms

• verde
• verdulero

Further reading

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