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Latin
Etymology
From Gaulish *werēdos, from Proto-Celtic *uɸoreidos (“horse”) (compare Welsh gorwydd (“horse”)).
Pronunciation
Noun
verēdus m (genitive verēdī); second declension
- A fast or light breed of horse; courier's horse; hunter.
Declension
Second-declension noun.
Derived terms
Descendants
References
- “veredus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- veredus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “veredus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers