verf

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English

Etymology

Shortening of vertex figure.

Pronunciation

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Noun

verf (plural verfs)

  1. (geometry) vertex figure
    • 2012, Jonathan Bowers, Uniform Polyhedra and Other Three Dimensional Shapes‎:
      The regular polyhedra include the five Platonic solids and the four Kepler-Poinsot solids. Their faces are all regular and congruent as well as their vertices and edges. Their verfs are regular also.

Afrikaans

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From Dutch verf, from Middle Dutch varwe, verwe, from Old Dutch *farwa, from Proto-Germanic *farwō.

Noun

verf (plural verwe)

  1. paint
Derived terms

Etymology 2

From Dutch verven, from Middle Dutch varwen, verwen.

Verb

verf (present verf, present participle verwende, past participle geverf)

  1. (transitive, intransitive) to paint

Dutch

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch varwe, verwe, from Old Dutch *farwa, from Proto-West Germanic *faru, from Proto-Germanic *farwō.

Noun

verf f (plural verven)

  1. paint
Derived terms
Descendants
  • Afrikaans: verf
  • Negerhollands: verw
  • → Papiamentu: fèrfdó
  • → Sranan Tongo: ferfi

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

verf

  1. inflection of verven:
    1. first-person singular present indicative
    2. (in case of inversion) second-person singular present indicative
    3. imperative
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