verro

• verre, verri

Inherited from Latin verres, perhaps via a Vulgar Latin *verrus, for which cf. Italian verro.

• IPA^(key): (Central) [ˈbɛ.ru]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic, Valencian) [ˈvɛ.ro]

verro m (plural verros, feminine verra)

1. boar (uncastrated male hog)
2. (figurative) pig (crude man)

• verratell
• verrim

• “verro” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

• “verro” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

• barro, belro, berro

Attested since the 18th century. Probably from Latin varus (“eruption”).[1]

• IPA^(key): [ˈbɛrʊ]

verro m (plural verros)

1. (veterinary medicine) cattle's subcutaneous swelling caused by larvae

   Synonym: vérrago

• “verro” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “verro” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “verro” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

From Latin verres, with a change in declension.

• IPA^(key): /ˈvɛr.ro/
• Rhymes: -ɛrro
• Hyphenation: vèr‧ro

verro m (plural verri)

1. boar (male pig)

From Proto-Italic *wors-o-, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *wers- (“to wipe, to drag on the ground”).[1]

Compare Hittite [Term?] (/⁠warš⁠/, “pluck, reap”), Albanian zvarrë (“drag on the ground”), Ancient Greek ἔρρω (érrhō, “to move slowly, limp”), Old Norse vǫrr (“stroke”), Latvian vârsms (“heap of corn, grain”).[2]

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈu̯er.roː/, [ˈu̯ɛrːoː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈver.ro/, [ˈvɛrːo]

verrō (present infinitive verrere, perfect active verrī, supine versum); third conjugation

1. to scrape, sweep out or up, brush, scour, clean out

   Synonyms: dēverrō, converrō

2. to sweep along, drive, impel
3. to sweep away, carry off, take away
   • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 1.58–59:

     Nī faciat, maria ac terrās caelumque profundum
     quippe ferant rapidī sēcum verrantque per aurās.

     If [Aeolous] should not do [this], [protecting] seas and lands and the vast sky, undoubtedly the all-consuming [winds] would carry [everything] with them and sweep [it all] away through the emptiness.
     (King Aeolus restrains stormwinds which otherwise would destroy the world. See: Aeolus (son of Hippotes).)

4. to cover, hide, conceal

   Synonyms: vēlō, dissimulō, occultō, indūcō, operiō, obnūbō, occulō, condō, recondō, obruō, adoperiō, nūbō, tegō, abscondō, abdō, cooperiō, obvolvō, comprimō, prōtegō, premō, opprimō, mergō

   Antonyms: adaperiō, aperiō, patefaciō

• converrō
• *versōria
• *versūra

• “verro”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “verro”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• verro in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • (ambiguous) in all directions: quoquo versus; in omnes partes
    
  • (ambiguous) to advance in the direction of Rome: Romam versus proficisci
    
  • (ambiguous) to write poetry: versus facere, scribere
    
  • (ambiguous) to write poetry with facility: carmina , versus fundere (De Or. 3. 50)