Noun: verbum
Hyphenation:
Gender: Neuter
Declension: Second
Nominative
| Singular | verbum |
| Plural | verba |
Genitive
| Singular | verbī |
| Plural | verbōrum |
Dative
| Singular | verbō |
| Plural | verbīs |
Accusative
| Singular | verbum |
| Plural | verba |
Ablative
| Singular | verbō |
| Plural | verbīs |
Vocative
| Singular | verbum |
| Plural | verba |
Sample Sentences
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Rēs, nōn verba. (actions speak louder than words)
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verba movent īram nōn circumspectā deōrum: (Words, without having been considered, excite the anger of the gods:
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“There is no wild beast,” [Orion] said, “such as I am unable to defeat!”
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(See: Orion (mythology).)) [8 CE, Ovidius, Fasti 5.539–540]
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In principio erat Verbum,
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et Verbum erat apud Deum,
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et Deus erat Verbum. (In principle was the Word,
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the Word was with God
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and the Word was God.) [[90-110], Ioannes [John], Biblia [Bible], volume Novum Testamentum [New Testament] (canonical gospel), Evangelium secundum Ioannem [Gospel according to John], chapter 1, verse 1, lines 1–3:]
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verba dō (to trick, deceive)
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DĀVUS: Sed sī quid tibi nārrāre occēpī, continuō darī / tibi verba cēnsēs. (DAVUS: But if I’ve begun to tell you anything, you immediately think that lies are being given to you.
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(In other words, idiomatically, “you think you’re being lied to or somehow deceived”.)) [166 BCE, Publius Terentius Afer, Andria 504–505]
Nouns inflected like verbum
palmētum,
miliardum,
rēctangulum,
bactērium,
frūctum,
melimēlum,
scītum,
scūtum,
lanthanum,
sertum,
sacrum,
pentaptōtum,
dēcrēmentum,
sorbum,
fundibulum,
alphabētum,
siglum,
signum,
flābrum,
nūtrīmentum, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. From Proto-Italic *werðom, from Proto-Indo-European *werdʰom (“word”). Cognate with Umbrian 𐌖𐌄𐌓𐌚𐌀𐌋𐌄 (uerfale), English word.
2. In the grammatical sense of “verb”, it is a semantic loan from Ancient Greek ῥῆμᾰ (rhêmă). See: English Nouns '
word'.
Verbs referencing "verbum"
English Nouns
word, English Nouns
verb, Catalan Nouns
verb, Norwegian Bokmål Nouns
verb, Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns
verb, Romanian Nouns
verb, Czech Nouns
verbum, Danish Nouns
verbum, Dutch Nouns
verbum, Danish Nouns
ord, Middle English Nouns
verbe, Finnish Nouns
verbi, German Nouns
Verb, Faroese Nouns
orð, Icelandic Nouns
orð, Bulgarian Nouns
глагол, Russian Nouns
глагол, Latvian Nouns
verbs, Galician Nouns
verbo, Italian Nouns
verbo, Portuguese Nouns
verbo, Spanish Nouns
verbo, Romanian Nouns
vorbă, Finnish Nouns
virsi, Asturian Nouns
verbu, Galician Nouns
verba, English Nouns
univerbation, English Nouns
verbarium, Latvian Nouns
vārds, Polish Nouns
werwa, Asturian Nouns
vierbu.
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