Translingual

Proper noun

Verbena f

1. A taxonomic genus within the family Verbenaceae – the vervains.

Hypernyms

• (genus): Plantae - kingdom; angiosperms, eudicots, core eudicots, asterids, euasterids I - clades; Lamiales - order; Verbenaceae - family

Hyponyms

• For species see Verbena on Wikispecies.Wikispecies or Verbena on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

English

a verbena
Verbena rigida

Noun

verbena ‎(plural verbenas)

1. Verbena, a genus of herbaceous plants of which several species are extensively cultivated for the great beauty of their flowers; vervain.
   • 1918, Katherine Mansfield, Prelude (Selected Stories, Oxford World's Classics paperback 2002, 116)

     Linda pulled a piece of verbena and crumpled it, and held her hands to her mother. -

Derived terms

• lemon verbena
• sweet verbena
• verbenalin
• verbenalol

Translations

See also

• verbena on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• verbena on Wikispecies.Wikispecies

Italian

Etymology

From Latin verbena. Compare the doublet vermena.

Noun

verbena f ‎(plural verbene)

1. verbena, vervain

Derived terms

• Verbenacee

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *werbʰ- (see also Lithuanian virbas ‎(“twig, branch, scion, rod”)), from Proto-Indo-European *werb- ‎(“to turn, bend”). Cognate with Middle Dutch warp, Middle Low German warp, German Warf, Danish varp, Swedish varp.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /werˈbeː.na/, [wɛrˈbeː.na]

Noun

verbēna f ‎(genitive verbēnae); first declension

1. foliage, especially that of olive, myrtle etc having religious and medicinal uses

Inflection

First declension.

Descendants

References

• verbena in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• verbena in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “verbena”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• verbena in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• verbena in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

Portuguese

Etymology

From Latin verbena.

Noun

verbena f (plural verbenas)

1. verbena (any of the herbaceous flowering plant of the genus Verbena)

Spanish

Etymology

From Latin verbena, Proto-Indo-European *werbh (see also Lithuanian virbas ‎(“twig, branch, scion, rod”)), from Proto-Indo-European *werb- ‎(“to turn, bend”). Cognate with Middle Dutch warp, Middle Low German warp, German Warf, Danish varp, Swedish varp.

Noun

verbena f ‎(plural verbenas)

1. verbena (plant)
2. A night-time fair or party