versute

English

Etymology

From Latin versūtus, from vertö, versum (“to turn”).

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /vɚˈsut/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /vəˈsjuːt/
• Rhymes: -uːt
• Hyphenation: ver‧sute

Adjective

versute (comparative more versute, superlative most versute)

1. crafty; wily; artful
   • 1851, John James Blunt, Undesigned coincidences in the writings both of the Old and New Testament, page 12:

     a more versute and specious forgery

Anagrams

• revestu, vertues, vesture

Latin

Adjective

versūte

1. vocative masculine singular of versūtus

References

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