versus – Latin noun declension

Noun: versus
Hyphenation:

Gender: Masculine Declension: Fourth

Nominative

Singular	versus
Plural	versūs

Genitive

Singular	versūs
Plural	versuum

Dative

Singular	versuī
Plural	versibus

Accusative

Singular	versum
Plural	versūs

Ablative

Singular	versū
Plural	versibus

Vocative

Singular	versus
Plural	versūs

Sample Sentences

Magnum ibi numerum versuum ediscere dicuntur. (They are said to learn by heart a great number of verses there.) [c. 52 BCE, Julius Caesar, Commentarii de bello Gallico 6.14]
Ille, Modos, quibus metirentur rura, alius alios constituit. Nam in Hispania ulteriore metiuntur iugis, in Campania versibus, apud nos in agro Romano ac Latino iugeris. Iugum vocant, quod iuncti boves uno die exarare possint. (Each country has its own method of measuring land. Thus in farther Spain the unit of measure is the iugum, in Campania the versus, with us here in the district of Rome and in Latium the iugerum. The iugum is the amount of land which a yoke of oxen can plough in a day; the versus is an area 100 feet square; 2 the iugerum an area containing two square actus.) [1st century BCE, Marcus Terentius Varro, Rerum rusticarum libri III (Agricultural Topics in Three Books).Liber I, X]

Nouns inflected like versus

frūctus, scītus, sessus, saltus, socrus, accubitus, flūctus, septemvirātus, vīctus, flū̆xus, olfactus, pugilātus, perfectus, bālātus, pāstus, īnfectus, subrīsus, sēnsus, īnflūxus, arcessītus, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)

Etymology

1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *wert-
3. Proto-Indo-European *wértetor
4. Proto-Italic *wertō
5. Latin vertō
6. Proto-Indo-European *-tus
7. Proto-Italic *-tus
8. Latin -tus
9. Latin versus
10. From vertō + -tus (forming action nouns).

Verbs referencing "versus"

Catalan Nouns vers, Danish Nouns vers, Dutch Nouns vers, French Nouns vers, Hungarian Nouns vers, Middle English Nouns vers, Norwegian Bokmål Nouns vers, Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns vers, Romanian Nouns vers, Swedish Nouns vers, German Nouns Vers, Italian Nouns verso, Czech Nouns verš, Catalan Nouns ves, Galician Nouns veso, Old English Nouns fers, Russian Nouns верста, Irish Nouns véarsa, Finnish Nouns värssy, Ukrainian Nouns вірш, Ukrainian Nouns верства.