vert

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /vɜːt/

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /vɝt/
• Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)t

From Middle English vert, borrowed from Old French vert, from Vulgar Latin virdis, syncopated from Classical Latin viridis. Doublet of virid, which was borrowed directly from Latin.

vert (countable and uncountable, plural verts)

1. (heraldry) A green colour, now only in heraldry; represented in engraving by diagonal parallel lines 45 degrees counter-clockwise.

   vert:  

2. (archaic) Green undergrowth or other vegetation growing in a forest, as a potential cover for deer.
3. (archaic) The right to fell trees or cut shrubs in a forest.
   • 1819, Walter Scott, Ivanhoe:

     “I understand thee,” said the King, “and the Holy Clerk shall have a grant of vert and venison in my woods of Warncliffe.”

• vt. in heraldic contexts.
• Appendix:Colors

vert (comparative more vert, superlative most vert)

1. (heraldry) In blazon, of the colour green.

• verdant

Abbreviation of vertical.

vert

1. Abbreviation of vertical.

vert (plural verts)

1. (colloquial) In sport, a type of bicycle stunt competition.
2. A vertical surface used by skateboarders or skiers.

Abbreviation of vertebrate.

vert (plural verts)

1. (biology, informal) Vertebrate.

From Latin vertere (“to turn, overturn”).

vert (third-person singular simple present verts, present participle verting, simple past and past participle verted)

1. (archaic or literary) To turn.
   • 1659, Thomas Fuller, “The Eleventh Book, Containing the Reign of K. Charls”, in The Appeal of Iniured Innocence: unto the Religious Learned and Ingenuous Reader. In a Controversie Betwixt the Animadvertor Dr. Peter Heylyn and the Author Thomas Fuller., London: […] W. Godbid, […], part III, page 21:

     Theſe are Ani-mad-versions indeed, when a Writer’s words are madly verted, inverted, perverted, againſt his true intent, and their Grammaticall ſenſe.

   • 1859, George Meredith, “In Which the Hero Takes a Step”, in The Ordeal of Richard Feverel. A History of Father and Son. […], volume II, London: Chapman and Hall, →OCLC, page 198:

     Hippias not only came aboveground, he flew about in the very skies, verting like any blithe creature of the season.

   • 1879 December 6, J[ames] Matthews Duncan, “On Retention of Mucus”, in The Medical Times and Gazette. A Journal of Medical Science, Literature, Criticism, and News., volume II, number 1536, London: […] J. & A. Churchill, […], page 630:

     A lady had ulceration of the interior of the body of the uterus, which was not flexed or verted: […].

   • 1903 February 7, R. C. Matheny, “Imbalance and Insufficiency of the Eye Muscles”, in George F[rederick] Shrady [Sr.], Thomas L[athrop] Stedman, editors, Medical Record: A Weekly Journal of Medicine and Surgery, volume 63, number 6 (whole 1683), New York, N.Y.: William Wood and Company, page 210:

     For instance, all of the muscles of the eyes may be relatively weak. The ducting or verting power is not as great as it should be.

Abbreviation of vertex.

vert (plural verts)

1. (computer graphics, informal) Vertex.

• “vert”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
• Douglas Harper (2001–2024) “vert”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.

• Trev, Tver, trev

Inherited from Middle French and Old French vert, from Vulgar Latin virdis, syncopated from Classical Latin viridis. Compare Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish verde. The Old French -t is due to regular final devoicing. The feminine was originally also vert and was extended with -e only during Middle French times, thus keeping the devoiced sound.

• IPA^(key): /vɛʁ/

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• (Quebec) IPA^(key): /vaɛ̯ʁ/

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• (Louisiana) IPA^(key): /væ(r)/
• Homophones: ver, verre, verres, vers, verts, vair, vairs
• Rhymes: -ɛʁ

vert m (plural verts)

1. green

vert (feminine verte, masculine plural verts, feminine plural vertes)

1. green

• verdâtre
• verdir
• verger

• Haitian Creole: vèt, vè
• Louisiana Creole: vè, vèr, vær
• → Wolof: wert

• “vert”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• verd

From Vulgar Latin virdis, syncopated from Latin viridis. Compare Italian verde.

vert

1. green

• verze

ver +‎ -t

• IPA^(key): [ˈvɛrt]
• Hyphenation: vert
• Rhymes: -ɛrt

vert

1. third-person singular indicative past indefinite of ver

vert

1. past participle of ver

• wert, verte, verd

Borrowed from Old French vert, from Vulgar Latin virdis, syncopated from Classical Latin viridis.

• IPA^(key): /vɛrt/

vert (uncountable)

1. (cooking, heraldry) Green-coloured.

• vergeous
• vert sauce

• English: vert

• “vert, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

vert (uncountable)

1. (law) Any plant having green leaves.
2. (rare, especially heraldry) green

• English: vert

• “vert, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

From Middle Low German wert.

• IPA^(key): /ʋæʈ/
• Homophones: hvert, verdt, vært
• Rhymes: -æʈ

vert m (definite singular verten, indefinite plural verter, definite plural vertene)

1. a host (also in biology)
2. a landlord

• togvert
• vertsby
• vertsmaskin

• “vert” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Borrowed from Middle Low German wert.

vert m (definite singular verten, indefinite plural vertar, definite plural vertane)

1. a host (also in biology)
2. a landlord

• vertsby

vert

1. inflection of verta:
   1. present
   2. imperative

• “vert” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

From Vulgar Latin virdis, syncopated from Classical Latin viridis. Compare Italian verde and Spanish verde.

• IPA^(key): /ˈvert/, (later) /ˈvɛɾt/

vert oblique singular, m (oblique plural verz or vertz, nominative singular verz or vertz, nominative plural vert)

1. green

vert m (oblique and nominative feminine singular vert)

1. green, of a green color

• vergier

• Bourguignon: vord
• Middle French: verd, vert
  • French: vert
    • Haitian Creole: vèt, vè
    • Louisiana Creole: vè, vèr, vær
    • → Wolof: wert
• Picard: verd
• Norman: vaert, vèrt
• Walloon: vert
• → Middle English: vert
  • English: vert

From Old French vert, from Vulgar Latin virdis, syncopated from Classical Latin viridis. Cf. French vert, Italian verde and Spanish verde.

• IPA^(key): /vɛʀ/

vert

1. green