verres

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See also: vèrres

French

Pronunciation

Noun

verres m

  1. plural of verre

Verb

verres

  1. second-person singular present indicative/subjunctive of verrer

Anagrams

Latin

verrēs (a boar)

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *wersēn, from Proto-Indo-European *wérsēn (male animal). The nominative singular and the i-stem declension pattern are analogous; a more logical development would have been verrēn as the form used in the nominative and vocative singular cases with the base being verrin-. Cognates include Sanskrit वृषन् (vṛ́ṣan), वृष (vṛṣa), Ancient Greek ἄρσην (ársēn) and Lithuanian ver̃šis.

Pronunciation

Noun

verrēs m (genitive verris); third declension

  1. boar, male swine

Declension

Third-declension noun (i-stem).

singular plural
nominative verrēs verrēs
genitive verris verrium
dative verrī verribus
accusative verrem verrēs
verrīs
ablative verre verribus
vocative verrēs verrēs

Derived terms

Descendants

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