vert

See also: 'vert, vért, vèrt, vērt, and vërt

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /vɜːt/

• Audio (Southern England)

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /vɝt/
• Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)t

Etymology 1

From Middle English vert, borrowed from Old French vert, from Vulgar Latin virdis, syncopated from Classical Latin viridis. Doublet of virid, which was borrowed directly from Latin.

Noun

vert (countable and uncountable, plural verts)

1. (heraldry) A green colour, now only in heraldry; represented in engraving by diagonal parallel lines 45 degrees counter-clockwise.

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2. (archaic) Green undergrowth or other vegetation growing in a forest, as a potential cover for deer.
3. (archaic) The right to fell trees or cut shrubs in a forest.
   • 1819, Walter Scott, Ivanhoe:

     “I understand thee,” said the King, “and the Holy Clerk shall have a grant of vert and venison in my woods of Warncliffe.”

Translations

colour

• Bulgarian: зелено (bg) n (zeleno)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 綠／绿 (zh)

• Czech: zelená (cs) f
• Danish: grøn (da)
• Dutch: sinopel (nl)
• Finnish: vihreä (fi)
• French: de sinople (fr)
• German: Grün (de)
• Hungarian: zöld (hu)
• Italian: verde (it)
• Macedonian: зе́лена f (zélena)
• Portuguese: sinople (pt) m
• Romanian: verde (ro)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: зелена f

  Roman: zelena f

• Slovak: zelená
• Spanish: sinople (es)
• Swedish: grönt (sv) n

See also

• vt. in heraldic contexts.
• Appendix:Colors

Adjective

vert (comparative more vert, superlative most vert)

1. (heraldry) In blazon, of the colour green.

Related terms

• verdant

Translations

of green colour

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 綠色的／绿色的 (lǜsè de)

• Danish: grøn (da)
• Dutch: groen (nl)
• Finnish: vihreä (fi)
• French: de sinople (fr)
• German: grün (de)
• Hungarian: zöld (hu)
• Italian: verde (it)
• Macedonian: зе́лен m (zélen)
• Polish: zielony (pl)
• Portuguese: sinople (pt)
• Romanian: verde (ro)
• Russian: зелёный (ru) (zeljónyj)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: зелена f

  Roman: zelena f

• Spanish: sinople (verde)
• Swedish: grön (sv)

Etymology 2

Abbreviation of vertical.

Noun

vert (plural verts)

1. (colloquial) In sport, a type of bicycle stunt competition.
2. A vertical surface used by skateboarders or skiers.

Etymology 3

Abbreviation of vertebrate.

Noun

vert (plural verts)

1. (biology, informal) vertebrate

Etymology 4

From Latin vertere (“to turn, overturn”).

Verb

vert (third-person singular simple present verts, present participle verting, simple past and past participle verted)

1. (archaic or literary) To turn.
   • 1659, Thomas Fuller, “The Eleventh Book, Containing the Reign of K. Charls”, in The Appeal of Iniured Innocence: unto the Religious Learned and Ingenuous Reader. In a Controversie Betwixt the Animadvertor Dr. Peter Heylyn and the Author Thomas Fuller., London: […] W. Godbid, […], part III, page 21:

     Theſe are Ani-mad-versions indeed, when a Writer’s words are madly verted, inverted, perverted, againſt his true intent, and their Grammaticall ſenſe.

   • 1859, George Meredith, “In Which the Hero Takes a Step”, in The Ordeal of Richard Feverel. A History of Father and Son. […], volume II, London: Chapman and Hall, →OCLC, page 198:

     Hippias not only came aboveground, he flew about in the very skies, verting like any blithe creature of the season.

   • 1879 December 6, J[ames] Matthews Duncan, “On Retention of Mucus”, in The Medical Times and Gazette. A Journal of Medical Science, Literature, Criticism, and News., volume II, number 1536, London: […] J. & A. Churchill, […], page 630:

     A lady had ulceration of the interior of the body of the uterus, which was not flexed or verted: […].

   • 1903 February 7, R. C. Matheny, “Imbalance and Insufficiency of the Eye Muscles”, in George F[rederick] Shrady [Sr.], Thomas L[athrop] Stedman, editors, Medical Record: A Weekly Journal of Medicine and Surgery, volume 63, number 6 (whole 1683), New York, N.Y.: William Wood and Company, page 210:

     For instance, all of the muscles of the eyes may be relatively weak. The ducting or verting power is not as great as it should be.

References

• “vert”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
• Douglas Harper (2001–2023), “vert”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.

Anagrams

• Trev, Tver, trev

French

Etymology

Inherited from Old French vert, from Vulgar Latin virdis, syncopated from Classical Latin viridis. Cf. Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish verde.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /vɛʁ/

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• France (West)

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• (Quebec) IPA^(key): /vaɛ̯ʁ/

• Quebec (Quebec City)

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• (Louisiana) IPA^(key): /væ(r)/
• Homophones: ver, verre, verres, vers, verts, vair, vaire
• Rhymes: -ɛʁ

Noun

vert m (plural verts)

1. green

Adjective

vert (feminine verte, masculine plural verts, feminine plural vertes)

1. green

Derived terms

• algue verte
• béret vert
• carte verte
• chêne vert
• chou vert et vert chou
• citron vert
• classe verte
• en dire des vertes et des pas mûres
• énergie verte
• fée verte
• feu vert
• haricot vert
• heure verte
• langue verte
• l’herbe est toujours plus verte ailleurs
• l’herbe est toujours plus verte dans le pré du voisin
• maillot vert
• main verte
• numéro vert
• oignon vert
• olive verte
• Parti vert
• pic vert
• salade verte
• se mettre au vert
• thé vert
• tourisme vert
• vert de colère
• vert de jalousie
• vert de peur
• vert de rage
• vert pomme
• voie verte
• volée de bois vert

 

Related terms

• verdâtre
• verdir
• verger

Descendants

• Haitian Creole: vèt, vè
• Louisiana Creole: vè, vèr, vær
• → Wolof: wert

See also

Colors in French · couleurs (layout · text)

blanc	gris	noir
rouge; cramoisi, carmin	orange; brun, marron	jaune; crème
vert citron	vert	menthe
cyan, turquoise; bleu canard	azur, bleu ciel	bleu
violet, lilas; indigo	magenta; pourpre	rose

Further reading

• “vert”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Friulian

Alternative forms

• verd

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin virdis, syncopated from Latin viridis. Compare Italian verde.

Adjective

vert

1. green

Related terms

• verze

Hungarian

Etymology

ver +‎ -t

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈvɛrt]
• Hyphenation: vert
• Rhymes: -ɛrt

Verb

vert

1. third-person singular indicative past indefinite of ver

Participle

vert

1. past participle of ver

Middle English

Alternative forms

• wert, verte, verd

Etymology

Borrowed from Old French vert, from Vulgar Latin virdis, syncopated from Classical Latin viridis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /vɛrt/

Adjective

vert (uncountable)

1. (cooking, heraldry) Green-coloured.

Related terms

• vergeous
• vert sauce

References

• “vert, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Noun

vert (uncountable)

1. (law) Any plant having green leaves.
2. (rare, especially heraldry) green

References

• “vert, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Middle Low German wert.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʋæʈ/
• Homophones: hvert, verdt, vært
• Rhymes: -æʈ

Noun

vert m (definite singular verten, indefinite plural verter, definite plural vertene)

1. a host (also in biology)
2. a landlord

Derived terms

• togvert
• vertsby
• vertsmaskin

References

• “vert” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle Low German wert.

Noun

vert m (definite singular verten, indefinite plural vertar, definite plural vertane)

1. a host (also in biology)
2. a landlord

Derived terms

• vertsby

Verb

vert

1. present tense of verta/verte
2. imperative of verta/verte

References

• “vert” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Old French

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin virdis, syncopated from Classical Latin viridis. Compare Italian verde and Spanish verde.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈvert/, (later) /ˈvɛɾt/

Noun

vert m (oblique plural verz or vertz, nominative singular verz or vertz, nominative plural vert)

1. green

Adjective

vert m (oblique and nominative feminine singular vert)

1. green, of a green color

Declension

Declension of vert

Number	Case	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Singular	Subject	verz	vert (later verte)	vert
	Oblique	vert			vert (later verte)	vert
Plural	Subject	vert	verz (later vertes)		vert
	Oblique	verz			verz (later vertes)	vert

Related terms

• vergier

Descendants

• Bourguignon: vord
• Middle French: verd, vert
  • French: vert
    • Haitian Creole: vèt, vè
    • Louisiana Creole: vè, vèr, vær
    • → Wolof: wert
• Picard: verd
• Norman: vaert, vèrt
• Walloon: vert
• → Middle English: vert
  • English: vert

Walloon

Etymology

From Old French vert, from Vulgar Latin virdis, syncopated from Classical Latin viridis. Cf. French vert, Italian verde and Spanish verde.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /vɛʀ/

Adjective

vert

1. green