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Latin
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From verber (“whip, rod”) + -ō (suffix forming first conjugation verbs).
Verb
verberō (present infinitive verberāre, perfect active verberāvī, supine verberātum); first conjugation
- to lash, scourge, whip, beat
- Synonyms: tangō, percutiō, pellō, feriō, discutiō, pulsō, īcō, accīdō, affligō, impingō, percellō
Conjugation
1The present passive infinitive in -ier is a rare poetic form which is attested.
Derived terms
Etymology 2
From verber (“whip, rod”) + -ō (suffix forming third declension masculine agent nouns).
Noun
verberō m (genitive verberōnis); third declension
- scoundrel, rascal (worthy of being whipped)
- Synonyms: furcifer, mastīgia
Declension
Third-declension noun.
References
- “verbero”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “verbero”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “verbero”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- verbero 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)
- verbero in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to rain missiles on a town, bombard it: oppidum tormentis verberare
- “verberate”, in The Century Dictionary , New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
Spanish
Verb
verbero
- first-person singular present indicative of verberar