Italian

Noun

verro m ‎(plural verri)

1. boar (male pig)

See also

• vero

Latin

Etymology

Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *wers- ‎(“to drag on the ground”). Compare Hittite 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”).^[1]

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈwer.roː/, [ˈwɛr.roː]

Verb

verrō ‎(present infinitive verrere, perfect active verrī, supine versum); third conjugation

1. I scrape, sweep out or up, brush, scour, clean out.
2. I sweep along, drive, impel.
3. I sweep away, carry off, take away.
4. I cover, hide, conceal.

Inflection

Descendants

• Catalan: barrejar
• Galician: varrer
• Old Portuguese: varrer
• Portuguese: varrer
• Spanish: barrer

References

• 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
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “verro”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, 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)
    

1. ↑ “Indogermanisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch”, J. Pokorny, 1959, Bern : Francke