Source etymology 1
Original entry ↗A poetic form with regular meter and a fixed rhyme scheme. · Poetic form in general. · One of several similar units of a song, consisting of several lines, generally rhymed. · A small section of a holy book (Bible, Quran etc.)
To compose verses. · To tell in verse, or poetry. · to educate about, to teach about.
From Middle English vers, from a mixture of Old English fers and Old French vers; both from Latin versus (“a line in writing, and in poetry a verse; (originally) row, furrow”), from vertō (“to turn around”).
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