verde

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Aragonese

Etymology

Inherited from Vulgar Latin virdis, syncopated from Latin viridis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbeɾde/
• Rhymes: -eɾde
• Syllabification: ver‧de

Adjective

verde (feminine verda, masculine plural verdes, feminine plural verdas)

1. green (color/colour)

References

• “verde”, in Aragonario, diccionario castellano–aragonés (in Spanish)
• Bal Palazios, Santiago (2002) “verde”, in Dizionario breu de a luenga aragonesa, Zaragoza, →ISBN

Asturian

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin virdis, syncopated from Latin viridis. Cognate with English verdure, French vert, and various Romance homonyms.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbeɾde/, [ˈbeɾ.ð̞e]
• Rhymes: -eɾde
• Hyphenation: ver‧de

Adjective

verde c (plural verdes)

1. green (color/colour)

Noun

verde m (plural verdes)

1. green (color/colour)

Derived terms

• verdura

Corsican

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin virdis, syncopated from Latin viridis. Cognates include Italian verde and French vert.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈvɛrdɛ/, /ˈbɛrdɛ/
• Hyphenation: ver‧de

Adjective

verde (plural verzi)

1. green (color/colour)

Noun

verde m (plural verdi)

1. green (color/colour)
2. (mineralogy) smaragdite

References

• “verde, verdi” in INFCOR: Banca di dati di a lingua corsa

Dutch

Etymology

A back-formation by analogy with the comparative verder.

Adjective

verde

1. Obsolete form of verre.

Anagrams

• dreve, veder, vrede

Esperanto

Adverb

verde

1. greenly

Related terms

• verda (“green”, adjective)
• verdi (“to be green”, verb)
• verdo (“the color green”, noun)

Galician

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese verde, from Vulgar Latin virdis, syncopated from Latin viridis. Cognate with English verdure and vert, as well as various Romance homonyms.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbeɾde/ [ˈbeɾ.ð̞ɪ]
• Rhymes: -eɾde
• Hyphenation: ver‧de

Adjective

verde m or f (plural verdes)

1. green (color/colour)
2. unripe
3. (archaic) green or blue

Noun

verde m (plural verdes)

1. green (color/colour)

Derived terms

• verdello
• verdura

See also

References

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “verde”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “verde”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “verde”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “verde”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “verde”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

Interlingua

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian, Spanish, or Portuguese verde.

Adjective

verde

1. green (color/colour)

See also

Italian

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin virdis, syncopated from Classical Latin viridis, from vireō. Cognate with English verdure, French vert, and various Romance homonyms.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈver.de/
• Rhymes: -erde
• Hyphenation: vér‧de

Adjective

verde (plural verdi)

1. green (color/colour)
2. pale
3. unripe

Noun

verde m (plural verdi, diminutive verdìno or verdolìno or verdétto, augmentative verdóne, diminutive-derogatory verdìgno or verdógnolo)

1. green (color/colour)
2. verdure, greenery
3. (heraldry) vert

Derived terms

See also

Anagrams

• veder

Leonese

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin virdis, syncopated from Latin viridis.

Adjective

verde

1. green (color/colour)

References

• verde at the Diccionario Castellano-Leonés / Leonés-Castellano.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology 1

Adjective

verde

1. definite singular of verd
2. plural of verd

Etymology 2

Noun

verde n (definite singular verdet, indefinite plural verde, definite plural verda)

1. (pre-2012) alternative form of verd n
2. (pre-2012) alternative form of verdi m

Old Galician-Portuguese

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin virdis, syncopated from Latin viridis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈβeɾ.de/

Adjective

verde m or f (plural verdes)

1. green (color/colour)
   • 13th century, Cancioneiro da Ajuda, João Garcia de Guilhade, A 229: Amigos, non poss'eu negar (facsimile)

Descendants

• Fala: verdi
• Galician: verde
• Portuguese: verde (see there for further descendants)

See also

Old Spanish

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin virdis, syncopated from Classical Latin viridis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈβeɾde/

Adjective

verde

1. green (color/colour)

Descendants

• Ladino: vedre
• Spanish: verde (see there for further descendants)

Portuguese

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese verde (“green”), from Vulgar Latin virdis, syncopated from Classical Latin viridis (“green”). Doublet of víride, which was borrowed from Latin.

Cognate with Galician, Spanish, Italian, and Romanian verde, Catalan and Occitan verd, French vert and English vert, virid.

Pronunciation

• (Caipira, Sertanejo) IPA^(key): /ˈveɻ.dʒi/
• (Northeastern Brazil, Bahia) IPA^(key): /ˈveh.di/
• (Minas Gerais) IPA^(key): /ˈveh.dʒi/
• (Portuñol Riverense) IPA^(key): /ˈveɾ.de/
• Hyphenation: ver‧de

Adjective

verde m or f (plural verdes, diminutive verdinho)

1. green (color/colour)
2. (of fruit) unripe; green (not ripe, not ready to eat)

   Antonym: maduro

3. (figuratively) unripe; green (not fully developed)

   Synonym: imaturo

   Antonyms: maduro, maturado

4. green; environmentally friendly

   Synonym: ecológico

Derived terms

• Cabo Verde
• verdura
• vinho verde

Descendants

• Guinea-Bissau Creole: verdi
• Kabuverdianu: verdi
• Papiamentu: bèrdè

Noun

verde m (plural verdes)

1. green (color/colour)
2. greenery, vegetation

   Synonyms: verdura, vegetação, natureza

Related terms

See also

Further reading

• “verde”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2024

Romanian

Alternative forms

• верде (verde) — post-1930s Cyrillic spelling

Etymology

Inherited from Vulgar Latin virdis, syncopated from Classical Latin viridis. Related to English verdure.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈver.de/
• Rhymes: -erde
• Hyphenation: ver‧de

Adjective

verde m or f or n (plural verzi)

1. green (color/colour)

Declension

Noun

verde n (uncountable)

1. green (color/colour)
2. (slang) green, marijuana

Declension

Derived terms

• verzui

Related terms

• înverzi
• verdeață
• varză

See also

Spanish

Etymology

Inherited from Old Spanish verde, from Vulgar Latin virdis, syncopated from Classical Latin viridis. Cognate with English verdure and verdant, Catalan verd, French vert, as well as various Romance homonyms.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbeɾde/ [ˈbeɾ.ð̞e]
• Rhymes: -eɾde
• Syllabification: ver‧de

Adjective

verde m or f (masculine and feminine plural verdes)

1. green (color/colour)

2. green (eco-friendly)
3. unripe

   Synonym: inmaduro

4. (figurative) inexperienced; naïve
5. (figurative) risqué, naughty

6. (figurative) dirty, coarse

7. (figurative) unwell; sick

Usage notes

• When used with the verb ser, verde means literally green in colour, while the verb estar is used with figurative meanings of verde such as naïve, risqué, unwell or dirty.

Noun

verde m (plural verdes)

1. green (color/colour)

Derived terms

Related terms

Descendants

• → Aklanon: berde
• → Basque: berde
• → Cebuano: berde
• → Chamorro: betde
• → Hiligaynon: berde
• → Inabaknon: berde
• → Tagalog: berde

See also

Further reading

• “verde”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28