versículo

See also: versiculo

Portuguese

Etymology

Etymology tree

Latin versus

Proto-Indo-European *-lós

Proto-Indo-European *-elós

Proto-Italic *-elos

Proto-Italic *-kelos

Latin -culus

Latin versiculuslbor.

Portuguese versículo

Learned borrowing from Latin versiculus.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /veʁˈsi.ku.lu/ [vehˈsi.ku.lu]

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /veʁˈsi.ku.lu/ [vehˈsi.ku.lu]
  • (São Paulo) IPA^(key): /veɾˈsi.ku.lu/
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /veʁˈsi.ku.lu/ [veχˈsi.ku.lu]
  • (Caipira) IPA^(key): /veɻˈsi.ku.lu/

 

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /vɨɾˈsi.ku.lu/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /vɨɾˈsi.ku.lu/
  • (Northern Portugal) IPA^(key): /bɨɾˈsi.ku.lu/

• Rhymes: -ikulu
• Hyphenation: ver‧sí‧cu‧lo

Noun

versículo m (plural versículos)

1. verse (a small section of the Bible)

Further reading

• “versículo”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “versículo” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913
• “versículo”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

Spanish

Etymology

Etymology tree

Latin versus

Proto-Indo-European *-lós

Proto-Indo-European *-elós

Proto-Italic *-elos

Proto-Italic *-kelos

Latin -culus

Latin versiculuslbor.

Spanish versículo

Learned borrowing from Latin versiculus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /beɾˈsikulo/ [beɾˈsi.ku.lo]
• Rhymes: -ikulo
• Syllabification: ver‧sí‧cu‧lo

Noun

versículo m (plural versículos)

1. verse (in the Bible) [from 1435]

Related terms

• verso

Descendants

• → Cebuano: bersikulo
• → Tagalog: bersikulo

Further reading

• “versículo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025