verde

Inherited from Vulgar Latin virdis, syncopated from Latin viridis.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbeɾde/

verde m (masculine plural verdes or verds, feminine verda, feminine plural verdas)

1. green

• Bal Palazios, Santiago (2002), “verde”, in Dizionario breu de a luenga aragonesa, Zaragoza, →ISBN

From Vulgar Latin virdis, syncopated from Latin viridis. Cognate with English verdure, French vert, and various Romance homonyms.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbeɾde/, [ˈbeɾ.ð̞e]

verde c (plural verdes)

1. green

verde m (plural verdes)

1. The color green

• verdura

From Vulgar Latin virdis, syncopated from Latin viridis. Cognates include Italian verde and French vert.

• IPA^(key): /ˈvɛrdɛ/, /ˈbɛrdɛ/
• Hyphenation: ver‧de

verde (plural verzi)

1. green

verde m (plural verdi)

1. green
2. (mineralogy) smaragdite

• “verde, verdi” in INFCOR: Banca di dati di a lingua corsa

An obsolete construction from ver (“far”), plausibly an erroneous back-building, modelled on the superlative verder (instead of *verrer).

verde

1. Obsolete form of verre.

• dreve, veder, vrede

verde

1. greenly
   green:  

• verda (“green”, adjective)
• verdi (“to be green”, verb)
• verdo (“the color green”, noun)

From Old Galician and Old Portuguese verde, from Vulgar Latin virdis, syncopated from Latin viridis. Cognate with English verdure and vert, as well as various Romance homonyms.

• IPA^(key): [ˈbeɾðɪ]

verde m or f (plural verdes)

1. green
2. unripe
3. (archaic) green or blue
   • c1300, R. Martínez López (ed.), General Estoria. Versión gallega del siglo XIV. Oviedo: Archivum, page 134:

     O elamẽto da agoa figurauãna por rrazõ do mar, em semellança de varom et outrosi de hũa grande ymage, et coroada et nõ aposta mays fea et cõmo em semellança de quẽ espanta; et as suas vestiduras de duas colores, que agoa tantas ha proprias, de jalde et de verde

     And the element of the water figured by reason of the sea, looking like a man, as a large image, crowned, and not handsome but ugly and with a terrifying look; and his clothes were of two colors, which the water has as its own, yellow and blue [lit. green]

verde m (plural verdes)

1. The color green

• verdello
• verdura

• “verde” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
• “verde” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
• “verde” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “verde” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “verde” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Borrowed from Italian, Spanish, or Portuguese verde.

verde

1. green

From Vulgar Latin virdis, syncopated from Classical Latin viridis, from vireō. Cognate with English verdure, French vert, and various Romance homonyms.

• IPA^(key): /ˈver.de/

• Audio

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• Rhymes: -erde
• Hyphenation: vér‧de

verde (plural verdi)

1. green
2. pale
3. unripe

verde m (plural verdi, diminutive verdìno or verdolìno or verdétto, augmentative verdóne, diminutive-derogatory verdìgno or verdógnolo)

1. (color) green
2. verdure, greenery
3. (heraldry) vert

• veder

From Vulgar Latin virdis, syncopated from Latin viridis.

verde

1. green

• verde at the Diccionario Castellano-Leonés / Leonés-Castellano.

verde

1. definite singular of verd
2. plural of verd

verde n (definite singular verdet, indefinite plural verde, definite plural verda)

1. (pre-2012) alternative form of verd n
2. (pre-2012) alternative form of verdi m

From Vulgar Latin virdis, syncopated from Latin viridis.

• IPA^(key): /ˈβeɾ.de/

verde m or f (plural verdes)

1. green
   • 13th century, Cancioneiro da Ajuda, João Garcia de Guilhade, A 229: Amigos, non poss'eu negar (facsimile)

     [O]s ollos uerdes que eu ui / me façen ora andar aſſi.

     The green eyes which I have seen / have made me now be like this.

• Fala: verdi
• Galician: verde
• Portuguese: verde (see there for further descendants)

From Vulgar Latin virdis, syncopated from Classical Latin viridis.

• IPA^(key): /ˈβeɾde/

verde

1. green
   • 13th century, Gonzalo de Berceo, “Introducción”, in Milagros de Nuestra Señora:

     Yo maestro Gonçalvo de Verçeo nomnado
     Iendo en romeria caeçi en un prado
     Verde e bien sençido, de flores bien poblado,
     Logar cobdiçiaduero pora omne cansado.

     I mister Gonçalvo de Verçeo am called,
     wending upon a pilgrimage, came to a meadow's side,
     all green and not much pastured upon, with many flowers,
     an enticing spot for the weary men to abide.

• Ladino: vedre
• Spanish: verde (see there for further descendants)

From Old Portuguese verde (“green”), from Vulgar Latin virdis, syncopated from Classical Latin viridis (“green”). Doublet of víride, which was borrowed from Latin.

Cognate with Galician, Spanish, Italian, and Romanian verde, Catalan and Occitan verd, French vert and English vert, virid.

• (Caipira, Sertanejo) IPA^(key): /ˈveɻ.dʒi/
• (Northeastern Brazil, Baiano) IPA^(key): /ˈveh.di/
• (Mineiro) IPA^(key): /ˈveh.dʒi/
• (Portuñol Riverense) IPA^(key): /ˈveɾ.de/

• Audio (Caipira)

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• Hyphenation: ver‧de

verde m or f (plural verdes)

1. green in color
2. (of fruit) unripe; green (not ripe, not ready to eat)

   Antonym: maduro

3. (figuratively) unripe; green (not fully developed)

   Synonym: imaturo

   Antonyms: maduro, maturado

4. green; environmentally friendly

   Synonym: ecológico

• Cabo Verde
• verdura

• Guinea-Bissau Creole: verdi
• Kabuverdianu: verdi
• Papiamentu: bèrdè

verde m (plural verdes)

1. green (color)
2. greenery, vegetation

   Synonyms: verdura, vegetação, natureza

• “verde” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.

From Vulgar Latin virdis, syncopated from Classical Latin viridis. Cognate with various Romance homonyms and French vert. Related to English verdure.

• IPA^(key): /ˈver.de/

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verde m or f or n (plural verzi)

1. green

verde n (uncountable)

1. green (colour)
2. (slang) green, marijuana

• verzui

• înverzi
• verdeață
• varză

From Old Spanish verde, from Vulgar Latin virdis, syncopated from Classical Latin viridis. Cognate with English verdure and verdant, Catalan verd, French vert, as well as various Romance homonyms.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbeɾde/ [ˈbeɾ.ð̞e]

• Audio (Spain)

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• Rhymes: -eɾde
• Syllabification: ver‧de

verde (plural verdes)

1. green in colour

   La puerta es verde.

   The door is green.

2. unripe
3. (figurative) inexperienced; naïve
4. (figurative) risqué, naughty

   ¿Están verdes los vestidos?

   Are the dresses risqué?

5. (figurative) dirty, coarse

   Esos son chistes verdes

   Those are dirty jokes.

6. (figurative) unwell; sick

   ¿Estás verde?

   Are you unwell?

7. green (eco-friendly)

When used with the verb ser, verde means literally green in colour, while the verb estar is used with figurative meanings of verde such as naïve, risqué, unwell or dirty.

verde m (plural verdes)

1. green (colour)

• vergel

• → Aklanon: berde
• → Basque: berde
• → Cebuano: berde
• → Chamorro: betde
• → Hiligaynon: berde
• → Inabaknon: berde
• → Tagalog: berde

• “verde”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014