viridis

Latin

Alternative forms

• virdis (Vulgar Latin, proscribed)

Etymology

From the verb vireo (“to be verdant, to sprout”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈu̯i.ri.dis/, [ˈu̯ɪɾɪd̪ɪs̠]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈvi.ri.dis/, [ˈviːɾid̪is]

Adjective

viridis (neuter viride, superlative viridissimus); third-declension two-termination adjective

1. green
2. young, fresh, lively, youthful

Declension

Third-declension two-termination adjective.

Number	Singular			Plural
Case / Gender	Masc./Fem.	Neuter		Masc./Fem.	Neuter
Nominative	viridis	viride		viridēs	viridia
Genitive	viridis			viridium
Dative	viridī			viridibus
Accusative	viridem	viride		viridēs viridīs	viridia
Ablative	viridī			viridibus
Vocative	viridis	viride		viridēs	viridia

Related terms

• viridārium
• viride
• viridēscō
• viridia

• viridiarium
• viridicātus
• viriditas
• virido

Descendants

• Corsican: verde, verdi
• Dalmatian: viard
• Eastern Romance:
  • Aromanian: veardi, vearde
  • Romanian: verde
• Franco-Provençal: vèrd, vèrt
• Istriot: virdo
• Italian: verde
• Ligurian: vèrde
• Lombard: verd
• Navarro-Aragonese:
  • Aragonese: verde
• Neapolitan: verde
• Old French: vert
  • Bourguignon: vord
  • Middle French: verd, vert
    • French: vert
      • Haitian Creole: vèt, vè
      • → Wolof: wert
  • Picard: verd
  • Norman: vaert, vèrt
  • Walloon: vert
  • → Middle English: vert
    • English: vert
• Old Leonese:
  • Asturian: verde
  • Mirandese: berde
• Old Occitan: vert
  • Catalan: verd
  • Occitan: verd
• Old Portuguese: verde
  • Fala: verdi
  • Galician: verde
  • Portuguese: verde
    • Guinea-Bissau Creole: verdi
    • Kabuverdianu: verdi
    • Papiamentu: bèrdè
• Old Spanish:
  • Ladino: vedre
  • Spanish: verde
    • → Aklanon: berde
    • → Basque: berde
    • → Cebuano: berde
    • → Chamorro: betde
    • → Hiligaynon: berde
    • → Inabaknon: berde
    • → Tagalog: berde
• Rhaeto-Romance:
  • Friulian: vert, verd
  • Ladin: vërt
  • Romansch: verd, veard
• Sardinian: bidre, birde, virde
• Sicilian: virdi
• Venetian: vérdo
• → Albanian: verdhë
• → Breton: gwer
• → Cornish: gwyrdh, gwer
• → English: virid
• → Welsh: gwyrdd
• ⇒ Vulgar Latin: *virdia
  • Eastern Romance
    • Aromanian: veardzã, verdzu
    • Romanian: varză
  • Gallo-Italic
    • Lombard: verza
      • → German: Wirsing
    • Piedmontese: verza
  • Italo-Dalmatian
    • Dalmatian: viarz
    • Italian: verza
  • Rhaeto-Romance
    • Friulian: verze, verge
  • Venetian: verxa, verza
    • → Cimbrian: biirtza
  • West Iberian
    • Old Portuguese: verça
      • Galician: verza, berza
        • → Portuguese: berça, verça
    • Old Spanish: verça
      • Spanish: berza

References

• viridis in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• viridis in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• viridis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette