Noun: verb
Sample Sentences
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The word “speak” is an English verb.
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In ſo moche that if any verbe be of the thyꝛde coniugation / I ſet out all his rotes and tenſes[…] [1530 July 18, Iohan Palſgrave, “The Introduction”, in Leſclarciſſement de la langue francoyſe […] , London: Richard Pynſon, Iohan Haukyns, →OCLC, page 32; reprinted as Lesclarcissement de la langue françoyse, Genève: Slatkine Reprints, 1972:]
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a Verb of the Singular [1692–1717, Robert South, Twelve Sermons Preached upon Several Occasions, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London:]
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Kindness is a verb, not an adjective. You're only kind if you do kind things.
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You can invoke the Properties OLE verb in many ways. The easiest way is to move the mouse over the border of the control until it becomes only a four-way pointer and then right-click. [1995, Adam Denning, OLE Controls Inside Out, page 321:]
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The InfiniBand verbs, which are closely modeled in the “Gen2” interface, provide the functional specification for the operations that should be allowed on an InfiniBand compliant adapter. [2016, Ada Gavrilovska, Attaining High Performance Communications: A Vertical Approach:]
Nouns inflected like verb
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Middle English verbe, directly from Latin verbum (“word, verb”), reinforced by Old French verbe, from Proto-Indo-European *werdʰo-. Doublet of verve and word. See: Middle English Nouns '
verbe', Latin Nouns '
verbum'.