Noun: vert
Sample Sentences
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The field of the arms (shield), which is vert (green), represents the open country of Great Britain. [1957 February 26, “B.T.C. Armorial Bearings”, in Railway Magazine, page 81:]
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“I understand thee,” said the King, “and the Holy Clerk shall have a grant of vert and venison in my woods of Warncliffe.” [1819, Walter Scott, Ivanhoe:]
Nouns inflected like vert
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 vert, borrowed from Old French vert, from Late Latin virdis, syncopated from Classical Latin viridis. Doublet of virid, which was borrowed directly from Latin. See: Middle English Nouns '
vert', Latin Nouns '
viridis'.
Verbs referencing "vert"
Portuguese Nouns
verde.