viridis

viridis

Latin

Alternative forms

• virdis (Vulgar Latin)

Etymology

From the verb vireo (“to be verdant, to sprout”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈwi.ri.dis/, [ˈwɪ.rɪ.dɪs]

Adjective

viridis (neuter viride); third declension

1. green
2. young, fresh, lively, youthful

Inflection

Third declension.

Number	Singular			Plural
Case / Gender	Masc./Fem.	Neuter		Masc./Fem.	Neuter
Nominative	viridis	viride		viridēs	viridia
Genitive	viridis	viridis		viridium	viridium
Dative	viridī	viridī		viridibus	viridibus
Accusative	viridem	viride		viridēs, viridīs	viridia
Ablative	viridī	viridī		viridibus	viridibus
Vocative	viridis	viride		viridēs	viridia

Related terms

• viridārium
• viride
• viridēscō
• viridia

• viridiarium
• viridicātus
• viriditas
• virido

Descendants

• Corsican: verde, verdi
• Dalmatian: viard
• Eastern Romance:
  • Aromanian: veardi, vearde
  • Romanian: verde
• Franco-Provençal: vèrd, vèrt
• Istriot: virdo
• Italian: verde
• Ligurian: vèrde
• Lombard: verd
• Navarro-Aragonese:
  • Aragonese: verde
• Neapolitan: verde
• Old French: vert
  • Bourguignon: vord
  • Middle French: verd, vert
    • French: vert
      • Haitian Creole: vèt, vè
      • → Wolof: wert
  • Picard: verd
  • Norman: vaert, vèrt
  • Walloon: vert
  • → English: vert
• Old Leonese:
  • Asturian: verde
  • Mirandese: berde
• Old Occitan: vert
  • Catalan: verd
  • Occitan: verd
• Old Portuguese: verde
  • Fala: verdi
  • Galician: verde
  • Portuguese: verde
    • Guinea-Bissau Creole: verdi
    • Kabuverdianu: verdi
    • Papiamentu: bèrdè
• Old Spanish:
  • Ladino: vedre
  • Spanish: verde
    • → Aklanon: berde
    • → Basque: berde
    • → Cebuano: berde
    • → Chamorro: betde
    • → Hiligaynon: berde
    • → Inabaknon: berde
    • → Tagalog: berde
• Rhaeto-Romance:
  • Friulian: vert, verd
  • Ladin: vërt
  • Romansch: verd, veard
• Sardinian: bidre, birde, virde
• Sicilian: virdi
• Venetian: vérdo
• → Albanian: verdhë
• → Breton: gwer
• → Cornish: gwyrdh, gwer
• → English: virid
• → Welsh: gwyrdd
• ⇒ Vulgar Latin: *virdia
  • Dalmatian: viarz
  • Eastern Romance:
    • Aromanian: veardzã, verdzu
    • Romanian: varză
  • Italian: verza
  • Old Portuguese: verça
    • Galician: verza
      • → Portuguese: berça, verça
  • Old Spanish: verça
    • Spanish: berza
  • Rhaeto-Romance:
    • Friulian: verze, verge
  • Venetian: verxa, verza

See also

Colors in Latin · colōrēs (layout · text)
candidus, albus, niveus, cēreus, marmoreus, eburneus	cānus, rāvus, pullus, cinereus, cinericeus, plumbeus, grīseus	āter, niger, piceus
pūniceus, murrhinus, rūfus, ruber, russus, rubrīcus, mulleus ; cocceus, coccīnus, badius	rutilus, armeniacus, auranteus, aurantiacus ; fuscus, colōrius, cervīnus, spādīx	gilvus, helvus, fulvus, flāvus, croceus, pallidus, lūteus
galbus, galbīnus, lūridus	viridis	prasinus
cyaneus	caeruleus, azurīnus	glaucus; līvidus; venetus, blaveus
violāceus, ianthinus	purpureus, ostrīnus, ātropurpūreus, amethystīnus	roseus, rosāceus

References

• viridis in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• viridis in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• viridis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette