verres

See also: vèrres

French

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /vɛʁ/
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  • Homophones: vair, vairs, verre, vers, vert, verts
  • Rhymes: -ɛʁ

Noun

verres m

  1. plural of verre

Verb

verres

  1. second-person singular present indicative/subjunctive of verrer

Anagrams

Latin
verrēs (a boar)

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *wersēn, from Proto-Indo-European *wers-, *wr̥s- (“male”). Cognates include Sanskrit वृषन् (vṛ́ṣan), वृष (vṛṣa), Ancient Greek ἄρσην (ársēn) and Lithuanian ver̃šis.

Pronunciation

Noun

verrēs m (genitive verris); third declension

  1. boar, male swine

Declension

Third-declension noun (i-stem).

Case Singular Plural
Nominative verrēs verrēs
Genitive verris verrium
Dative verrī verribus
Accusative verrem verrēs
verrīs
Ablative verre verribus
Vocative verrēs verrēs

Derived terms

Descendants
  • Old French: ver
  • Romanian: vier
  • Romansch: ver, verr, vier
  • Sardinian: berre, berri, erri, erre, verre
  • ⇒ Vulgar Latin: *verrācus
    • ⇒ Asturian: bracu
    • ⇒ Spanish: verraco
  • ⇒ Vulgar Latin: *verrea
  • ⇒ Vulgar Latin: *verrōne(m)
  • ⇒ Vulgar Latin: *verrus

References
  • “verres”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “verres”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • verres in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • verres in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • “verres”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
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