verse

See also: Verse, versé, versë, 'verse, and -verse

English

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Partly from Old English fers; partly, from Old French vers; both, from Latin versus (“a line in writing, and in poetry a verse; (originally) row, furrow”), from vertō (“to turn around”).

Noun

verse (plural verses)

  1. A poetic form with regular meter and a fixed rhyme scheme.
    Restoration literature is well known for its carefully constructed verse.
  2. Poetic form in general.
    The restrictions of verse have been steadily relaxed over time.
  3. One of several similar units of a song, consisting of several lines, generally rhymed.
    Note the shift in tone between the first verse and the second.
  4. A small section of the Jewish or Christian Bible.
Derived terms
Translations

Verb

verse (third-person singular simple present verses, present participle versing, simple past and past participle versed)

  1. (obsolete) To compose verses.
    • Sir Philip Sidney (1554-1586)
      It is not rhyming and versing that maketh a poet.
  2. (transitive) To tell in verse, or poetry.

Etymology 2

Verb

verse (third-person singular simple present verses, present participle versing, simple past and past participle versed)

  1. to educate about, to teach about.
    He versed us in the finer points of category theory.
    • 1918, W. B. Maxwell, chapter 22, in The Mirror and the Lamp:
      Not unnaturally, “Auntie” took this communication in bad part. […] Next day she […] tried to recover her ward by the hair of the head. Then, thwarted, the wretched creature went to the police for help; she was versed in the law, and had perhaps spared no pains to keep on good terms with the local constabulary.

Etymology 3

Back-formation from versus, misconstrued as a third-person singular verb verses.

Verb

verse (third-person singular simple present verses, present participle versing, simple past and past participle versed)

  1. (colloquial) To oppose, to be an opponent for, especially in a video game.
    Verse him, G!

Further reading

  • verse in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
  • verse in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
  • verse at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

Dutch

Pronunciation

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Adjective

verse

  1. Inflected form of vers

Anagrams

French

Verb

verse

  1. first-person singular present indicative of verser
  2. third-person singular present indicative of verser
  3. first-person singular present subjunctive of verser
  4. third-person singular present subjunctive of verser
  5. second-person singular imperative of verser

Anagrams

Hungarian

Etymology

vers +‎ -e (“possessive suffix”)

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈvɛrʃɛ]
  • Hyphenation: ver‧se

Noun

verse

  1. third-person singular (single possession) possessive of vers

Declension

Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, front unrounded harmony)
singular plural
nominative verse —
accusative versét —
dative versének —
instrumental versével —
causal-final verséért —
translative versévé —
terminative verséig —
essive-formal verseként —
essive-modal verséül —
inessive versében —
superessive versén —
adessive versénél —
illative versébe —
sublative versére —
allative verséhez —
elative verséből —
delative verséről —
ablative versétől —

Latin

Participle

verse

  1. vocative masculine singular of versus

Portuguese

Verb

verse

  1. first-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of versar
  2. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present subjunctive of versar
  3. third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of versar
  4. third-person singular (você) negative imperative of versar

Spanish

Verb

verse (first-person singular present me veo, first-person singular preterite me vi, past participle visto)

  1. to meet; to see one another

Conjugation

        Conjugation of verse (See Appendix:Spanish verbs)edit data
    infinitive verse
    gerund viéndose
    past participle masculine feminine
    singular visto vista
    plural vistos vistas
    singular plural
    1st person 2nd person 3rd person 1st person 2nd person 3rd person
    indicative yo tú
    vos    		 él/ella/ello
    usted    		 nosotros
    nosotras    		 vosotros
    vosotras    		 ellos/ellas
    ustedes
    present me veo te ves se ve nos vemos os veis se ven
    imperfect me veía te veías se veía nos veíamos os veíais se veían
    preterite me vi te viste se vio nos vimos os visteis se vieron
    future me veré te verás se verá nos veremos os veréis se verán
    conditional me vería te verías se vería nos veríamos os veríais se verían
    subjunctive yo tú
    vos    		 él/ella/ello
    usted    		 nosotros
    nosotras    		 vosotros
    vosotras    		 ellos/ellas
    ustedes
    present me vea te veas se vea nos veamos os veáis se vean
    imperfect
    (ra)    		 me viera te vieras se viera nos viéramos os vierais se vieran
    imperfect
    (se)    		 me viese te vieses se viese nos viésemos os vieseis se viesen
    future1 me viere te vieres se viere nos viéremos os viereis se vieren
    imperative — tú
    vos    		 usted nosotros
    nosotras    		 vosotros
    vosotras    		 ustedes
    affirmative vete véase veámonos veos véanse
    negative no te veas no se vea no nos veamos no os veáis no se vean
    • 1 Mostly obsolete form, now mainly used in legal jargon.

    Other verbs with this conjugation:

    ► <a class='CategoryTreeLabel CategoryTreeLabelNs14 CategoryTreeLabelCategory' href='/wiki/Category:Spanish_verbs_ending_in_-er_(conjugation_ver)'>Spanish verbs ending in -er (conjugation ver)</a>

    Verb

    verse

    1. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of versar.
    2. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of versar.
    3. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of versar.
    4. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted?) present subjunctive form of versar.
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