verres

See also: vèrres

French

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /vɛʁ/
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Homophones: vair, vairs, verre, vers, vert, verts
Rhymes: -ɛʁ

Noun

verres m

plural of verre

Verb

verres

second-person singular present indicative/subjunctive of verrer

Anagrams

resver, revers, verser

Latin

verrēs (a boar)

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *wersēn, from Proto-Indo-European *wers-, *wr̥s- (“male”). Cognates include Sanskrit वृषन् (vṛ́ṣan), वृष (vṛṣa), Ancient Greek ἄρσην (ársēn) and Lithuanian ver̃šis.

Pronunciation

(Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈu̯er.reːs/, [ˈu̯ɛrːeːs̠]

(Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈver.res/, [ˈvɛrːes]

Noun

verrēs m (genitive verris); third declension

boar, male swine

Declension

Third-declension noun (i-stem).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	verrēs	verrēs
Genitive	verris	verrium
Dative	verrī	verribus
Accusative	verrem	verrēs verrīs
Ablative	verre	verribus
Vocative	verrēs	verrēs

Derived terms

verrīnus

Descendants

Old French: ver
- ⇒ French: verrat
- ⇒ Norman: véthot
Romanian: vier
Romansch: ver, verr, vier
Sardinian: berre, berri, erri, erre, verre
⇒ Vulgar Latin: *verraceus
- ⇒ Asturian: bracu
- ⇒ Spanish: verraco
⇒ Vulgar Latin: *verrea
- Spanish: birria
⇒ Vulgar Latin: *verrōne(m)
- Portuguese: barrão, varrão
⇒ Vulgar Latin: *verrus
- Catalan: verro, verre, verri
- Friulian: viru
- Italian: verro
- Sicilian: verru

References

“verres”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“verres”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
verres in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
verres in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
“verres”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers