Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗noun
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryEnthusiasm, rapture, spirit, or vigour, especially of imagination such as that which animates an artist, musician, or writer, in composing or performing. · A particular skill in writing.
Borrowed from French verve (“animation; caprice, whim; rapture; spirit; vigour; type of expression”), probably from Late Latin verva, a variant of Latin verba (“words; discourse; expressions; language”), the plural of verbum (“word”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *werh₁- (“to say, speak”). Doublet of verb and word.
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- Root classification mention*werh₁-ine-pro
- Root classification mention*dʰeh₁-ine-pro
- Borrowed-form mentionvervefr · animation; caprice, whim; rapture; spirit; vigour; type of expression
- Derivation mentionverbala · words; discourse; expressions; language
- Derivation mention*werh₁-ine-pro · to say, speak
- Doublet mentionverben
- Doublet mentionworden
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