verro

See also: Verro and verrò

Catalan

Alternative forms

• verre, verri

Etymology

Inherited from Latin verres, perhaps via a Vulgar Latin *verrus, for which cf. Italian verro.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central) [ˈbɛ.ru]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic, Valencia) [ˈvɛ.ro]

Noun

verro m (plural verros, feminine verra)

1. boar (uncastrated male hog)
2. (figurative) pig (crude man)

Derived terms

• verratell
• verrim

References

• “verro” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Further reading

• “verro” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

Galician

Alternative forms

• barro, belro, berro

Etymology

Attested since the 18th century. Probably from Latin varus (“eruption”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈbɛrʊ]

Noun

verro m (plural verros)

1. (veterinary medicine) cattle's subcutaneous swelling caused by larvae

   Synonym: vérrago

References

• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “verro”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “verro”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “verro”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

Italian

Etymology

From Latin verres, with a change in declension.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈvɛr.ro/
• Rhymes: -ɛrro
• Hyphenation: vèr‧ro

Noun

verro m (plural verri)

1. boar (male pig)

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *wors-o-, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *wers- (“to wipe, 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”).

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

1. to scrape, sweep out or up, brush, scour, clean out

   Synonyms: dēverrō, converrō

2. to sweep along, drive, impel
3. to sweep away, carry off, take away
   • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 1.58–59:

     Nī faciat, maria ac terrās caelumque profundum
     quippe ferant rapidī sēcum verrantque per aurās.

     If [Aeolous] should not do [this], [protecting] seas and lands and the vast sky, undoubtedly the all-consuming [winds] would carry [everything] with them and sweep [it all] away through the emptiness.
     (King Aeolus restrains stormwinds which otherwise would destroy the world. See: Aeolus (son of Hippotes).)

4. to cover, hide, conceal

   Synonyms: vēlō, dissimulō, occultō, indūcō, operiō, obnūbō, occulō, condō, recondō, obruō, adoperiō, nūbō, tegō, abscondō, abdō, cooperiō, obvolvō, comprimō, prōtegō, premō, opprimō, mergō

   Antonyms: adaperiō, aperiō, patefaciō

Conjugation

   Conjugation of verrō (third conjugation)

indicative		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
active	present	verrō	verris	verrit	verrimus	verritis	verrunt
	imperfect	verrēbam	verrēbās	verrēbat	verrēbāmus	verrēbātis	verrēbant
	future	verram	verrēs	verret	verrēmus	verrētis	verrent
	perfect	verrī	verristī	verrit	verrimus	verristis	verrērunt, verrēre
	pluperfect	verreram	verrerās	verrerat	verrerāmus	verrerātis	verrerant
	future perfect	verrerō	verreris	verrerit	verrerimus	verreritis	verrerint
passive	present	verror	verreris, verrere	verritur	verrimur	verriminī	verruntur
	imperfect	verrēbar	verrēbāris, verrēbāre	verrēbātur	verrēbāmur	verrēbāminī	verrēbantur
	future	verrar	verrēris, verrēre	verrētur	verrēmur	verrēminī	verrentur
	perfect	versus + present active indicative of sum
	pluperfect	versus + imperfect active indicative of sum
	future perfect	versus + future active indicative of sum
subjunctive		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
active	present	verram	verrās	verrat	verrāmus	verrātis	verrant
	imperfect	verrerem	verrerēs	verreret	verrerēmus	verrerētis	verrerent
	perfect	verrerim	verrerīs	verrerit	verrerīmus	verrerītis	verrerint
	pluperfect	verrissem	verrissēs	verrisset	verrissēmus	verrissētis	verrissent
passive	present	verrar	verrāris, verrāre	verrātur	verrāmur	verrāminī	verrantur
	imperfect	verrerer	verrerēris, verrerēre	verrerētur	verrerēmur	verrerēminī	verrerentur
	perfect	versus + present active subjunctive of sum
	pluperfect	versus + imperfect active subjunctive of sum
imperative		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
active	present	—	verre	—	—	verrite	—
	future	—	verritō	verritō	—	verritōte	verruntō
passive	present	—	verrere	—	—	verriminī	—
	future	—	verritor	verritor	—	—	verruntor
non-finite forms		active			passive
		present	perfect	future	present	perfect	future
infinitives		verrere	verrisse	versūrum esse	verrī	versum esse	versum īrī
participles		verrēns	—	versūrus	—	versus	verrendus, verrundus
verbal nouns		gerund				supine
		genitive	dative	accusative	ablative	accusative	ablative
		verrendī	verrendō	verrendum	verrendō	versum	versū

Derived terms

• converrō
• *versōria
• *versūra

Descendants

• Occitano-Romance:
  • ⇒ Catalan: barrejar
  • ⇒ Occitan: barrejar
• Ibero-Romance:
  • Old Galician-Portuguese: varrer
    • Fala: barrel
    • Galician: varrer
    • Portuguese: varrer
  • Spanish: barrer (see there for further descendants)

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.
  • (ambiguous) in all directions: quoquo versus; in omnes partes
    
  • (ambiguous) to advance in the direction of Rome: Romam versus proficisci
    
  • (ambiguous) to write poetry: versus facere, scribere
    
  • (ambiguous) to write poetry with facility: carmina , versus fundere (De Or. 3. 50)