The Latin form is unchanged; the grammatical use selects one technical sense of verbum.
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verbum
verb; predicate word
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PARENT / EARLIER FORM / attestedLatin · Latin antiquity · word utteranceverbum
word, utterance, expression, language, discourse
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A general word or utterance becomes the name of the predicate word class.
Lewis and Short cite Varro and Cicero for the grammatical use.
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Verb — Definition, Word History, and First Known UseLatin verbum “word, verb”
contextAUDIT SOURCE ↗ORIGINAL ↗Independently preserves both Latin senses in the English etymology.
Verbum — Lewis and Short, A Latin DictionaryI and II.C: general word senses and grammatical verb
supportsAUDIT SOURCE ↗ORIGINAL ↗Directly distinguishes broad Latin verbum from the specialized grammatical use.
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