verset
English
Etymology
From Middle English verset, from Old French verset; equivalent to verse + -et.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈvɜːsɪt/, /ˈvɜːsət/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈvɚsɪt/, /ˈvɚsət/
Noun
verset (plural versets)
- (music) A very short organ interlude or prelude.
- (obsolete) A verse.
- 1641, John Milton, Animadversions upon the Remonstrants Defence against Smectymnuus; republished in A Complete Collection of the Historical, Political, and Miscellaneous Works of John Milton, […], Amsterdam [actually London: s.n.], 1698, →OCLC:
- they bear an equal part with the Priest in many places , and have their cues and versets as well as he
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “verset”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
French
Etymology
Inherited from Old French verset. By surface analysis, vers + -et.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /vɛʁ.sɛ/
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Further reading
- “verset”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Hungarian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈvɛrʃɛt]
- Hyphenation: ver‧set
Latin
Middle English
Etymology
From Old French verset; equivalent to vers + -et.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈvɛrsɛt/
Descendants
- English: verset
References
- “verset, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2019-05-27.
Norwegian Bokmål
Norwegian Nynorsk
Piedmontese
Noun
verset m (plural verset)
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Romanian
Declension
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