[ˈwɛr.roː], [ˈvɛr.ro]
OriginFrom Proto-Italic *wors-o-, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *wers- (“to wipe, to drag on the ground”).
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”).
- conjugation-3to scrape, sweep out or up, brush, scour, clean out
- conjugation-3to sweep along, drive, impel
- conjugation-3to sweep away, carry off, take away
“Nī faciat, maria ac terrās caelumque profundum” — 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.
- conjugation-3to cover, hide, conceal
Formsverrō(canonical) · verrere(infinitive, present) · verrī(active, perfect) · versum(supine) · verrō(active, first-person, indicative, present, singular) · verris(active, indicative, present, second-person, singular) · verrit(active, indicative, present, singular, third-person) · verrimus(active, first-person, indicative, plural, present) · verritis(active, indicative, plural, present, second-person) · verrunt(active, indicative, plural, present, third-person) · verrēbam(active, first-person, imperfect, indicative, singular) · verrēbās(active, imperfect, indicative, second-person, singular) · verrēbat(active, imperfect, indicative, singular, third-person) · verrēbāmus(active, first-person, imperfect, indicative, plural) · verrēbātis(active, imperfect, indicative, plural, second-person) · verrēbant(active, imperfect, indicative, plural, third-person) · verram(active, first-person, future, indicative, singular) · verrēs(active, future, indicative, second-person, singular) · verret(active, future, indicative, singular, third-person) · verrēmus(active, first-person, future, indicative, plural)
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