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, Valencia) [ˈvɛ.ro]

verro m (plural verros, feminine verra, feminine plural verres)

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

• verratell
• verrim

• Alcover, Antoni Maria; Moll, Francesc de Borja (1963), “verro”, in Diccionari català-valencià-balear (in Catalan)

• “verro”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007

• 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

• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “verro”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “verro”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “verro”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

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 Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈwɛr.roː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈvɛr.ro]

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

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

   Synonyms: dēverrō, ēverrō, converrō

2. to sweep along, drive, impel
3. to sweep away, carry off, take away
   • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Vergilius, Aeneis 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

• “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^[2], 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)