verro
See also: verrò
Italian
Etymology
From Latin verres, with a change in declension.
Noun
verro m (plural verri)
- boar (male pig)
See also
Latin
Etymology
Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *wers- (“to drag on the ground”). Compare Hittite [Term?] (/warš/, “pluck, reap”), Albanian zvarrë (“drag on the ground”), Ancient Greek ἔρρω (érrhō, “to move slowly, limp”), Old Norse vǫrr (“stroke”), Latvian vârsms (“heap of corn, grain”).[1]
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈu̯er.roː/, [ˈu̯ɛrːoː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈver.ro/, [ˈvɛrːo]
Verb
verrō (present infinitive verrere, perfect active verrī, supine versum); third conjugation
- I scrape, sweep out or up, brush, scour, clean out.
- I sweep along, drive, impel.
- I sweep away, carry off, take away.
- I cover, hide, conceal.
Conjugation
Descendants
- Catalan: barrejar
- French: verrer
- Galician: varrer
- Old Galician-Portuguese: varrer
- Papiamentu: bari
- Portuguese: varrer
- Spanish: barrer
References
- ^ “Indogermanisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch”, J. Pokorny, 1959, Bern : Francke
Further reading
- “verro”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “verro”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- verro in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
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