verbena

Etymology

From Latin verbena (“leaves or twigs of olive, myrtle, laurel, or other sacred plants employed in religious ceremonies”), from Proto-Indo-European *werbh (see also Lithuanian virbas (“twig, branch, scion, rod”)), from Proto-Indo-European *werb- (“to turn, bend”). Cognate with Middle Dutch warp, Middle Low German warp, German Warf, Danish varp, Swedish varp.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -iːnə

Noun

verbena (plural verbenas)

1. Verbena, a genus of herbaceous plants of which several species are extensively cultivated for the great beauty of their flowers; vervain.
   • 1918, Katherine Mansfield, Prelude (Selected Stories, Oxford World's Classics paperback 2002, 116)

     Linda pulled a piece of verbena and crumpled it, and held her hands to her mother. -

See also

• verbena on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• verbena on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• verbena on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

Noun

verbena

1. verbena (plant of genus Verbena)
2. (in the plural) the genus Verbena

Etymology

From Latin verbena. Compare the doublet vermena.

Noun

verbena f (plural verbene)

1. verbena, vervain

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *werbʰ- (see also Lithuanian virbas (“twig, branch, scion, rod”)), from Proto-Indo-European *werb- (“to turn, bend”). Cognate with Middle Dutch warp, Middle Low German warp, German Warf, Danish varp, Swedish varp.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /werˈbeː.na/, [wɛrˈbeː.na]

Noun

verbēna f (genitive verbēnae); first declension

1. foliage, especially that of olive, myrtle etc having religious and medicinal uses

References

• verbena in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• verbena in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• verbena in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• verbena in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• verbena in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

Etymology

From Latin verbena.

Noun

verbena f (plural verbenas)

1. verbena (any of the herbaceous flowering plant of the genus Verbena)

Etymology

From Latin verbena, Proto-Indo-European *werbh (see also Lithuanian virbas (“twig, branch, scion, rod”)), from Proto-Indo-European *werb- (“to turn, bend”). Cognate with Middle Dutch warp, Middle Low German warp, German Warf, Danish varp, Swedish varp.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /berˈbena/, [berˈβena]

Noun

verbena f (plural verbenas)

1. verbena (plant)
2. a night-time fair or party

External links

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