verres

See also: vèrres

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /vɛʁ/

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• Homophones: vair, vairs, verre, vers, vert, verts
• Rhymes: -ɛʁ

Noun

verres m

1. plural of verre

Verb

verres

1. second-person singular present indicative/subjunctive of verrer

Anagrams

• resver, revers, verser

Latin

verrēs (a boar)

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *wersēn, from Proto-Indo-European *wers-, *wr̥s- (“male”). Cognates include Sanskrit वृषन् (vṛ́ṣan), वृष (vṛṣa), Ancient Greek ἄρσην (ársēn) and Lithuanian ver̃šis.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈu̯er.reːs/, [ˈu̯ɛrːeːs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈver.res/, [ˈvɛrːes]

Noun

verrēs m (genitive verris); third declension

1. boar, male swine

Declension

Third-declension noun (i-stem).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	verrēs	verrēs
Genitive	verris	verrium
Dative	verrī	verribus
Accusative	verrem	verrēs verrīs
Ablative	verre	verribus
Vocative	verrēs	verrēs

Derived terms

• verrīnus

Descendants

• Old French: ver
  • ⇒ French: verrat
  • ⇒ Norman: véthot
• Romanian: vier
• Romansch: ver, verr, vier
• Sardinian: berre, berri, erri, erre, verre
• ⇒ Vulgar Latin: *verrācus
  • ⇒ Asturian: bracu
  • ⇒ Spanish: verraco
• ⇒ Vulgar Latin: *verrea
  • Spanish: birria
• ⇒ Vulgar Latin: *verrōne(m)
  • Portuguese: barrão, varrão
• ⇒ Vulgar Latin: *verrus
  • Catalan: verro, verre, verri
  • Friulian: viru
  • Italian: verro
  • Sicilian: verru

References

• “verres”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “verres”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• verres 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)
• verres in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “verres”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers