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Did verbatim enter English as an adjective?
No. Merriam-Webster reports the adverb in the fifteenth century and the adjective in 1613.
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Does verbatim mean one isolated word?
No. Its Medieval Latin formation and older Latin phrase family express distributive exactness: word by word.
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Verbatim was an adverb first.
English borrowed Medieval Latin verbatim “word for word” in the fifteenth century; the adjective use appears in the reviewed record only in 1613.
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