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Verbatim — Definition, Word History, and First Known Use
- AUTHOR / EDITOR
- Merriam-Webster Editors
- YEAR
- 2026
- PUBLISHER
- Merriam-Webster
- DOI
- Not recorded
- SOURCE TYPE
- historical dictionary
- EXTERNAL RECORD
- OPEN ORIGINAL ↗
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RANK 152GRADE Asupports
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.
*werh₁-
*werh₁- → *wer-dho- → verbum → verbātim → verbatim
Etymology and First Known UseSupplies the word-for-word formation and the adverb-before-adjective chronology.
verbatim dossier ↗truth record ↗85UNVEILING
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SCHOLARLY DISAGREEMENT
DISPUTE POSITIONS THAT CITE THIS SOURCE
resolvedsupportsestablished
Did verbatim enter English as an adjective?
No. Merriam-Webster reports the adverb in the fifteenth century and the adjective in 1613.
First Known Use: adverb 15th century; adjective 1613Directly establishes the order of English uses.
resolvedsupportsestablished
Does verbatim mean one isolated word?
No. Its Medieval Latin formation and older Latin phrase family express distributive exactness: word by word.
Etymology: verbatim from verbum + -atimSupplies the distributive adverb formation.
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EDGES THAT CITE THIS SOURCE
EDGE 657supportsestablished
verbatim → verbātim
Present-Day English → Medieval Latin · borrowing
- SOUND
- English verbatim borrows Medieval Latin verbatim with learned stress and pronunciation adaptation.
- MEANING
- Word for word remains the core adverbial meaning; adjective use develops later in English.
- SCHOLAR / EDITOR
- Merriam-Webster Editors
Word History and First Known UseSupplies the Medieval Latin source, English adverb horizon, and later adjective date.
EDGE 658supportsestablished
verbātim → verbum
Medieval Latin → Latin · derivation
- SOUND
- Medieval Latin verbatim forms an adverb on verbum with -atim.
- MEANING
- A word becomes the base of the distributive sense word by word.
- SCHOLAR / EDITOR
- Merriam-Webster Editors
Etymology: Medieval Latin verbatim from verbum + -atimExplicitly identifies both components.
EDGE 669supportsestablished
verbātim → -ātim
Medieval Latin → Medieval Latin · derivational component
- SOUND
- Medieval Latin verbatim visibly combines the verbum stem with -atim.
- MEANING
- The suffix supplies distributive word-by-word adverbial force.
- SCHOLAR / EDITOR
- Merriam-Webster Editors
Etymology: verbatim from verbum + -atimExplicitly identifies the suffix component.
EDGE 670supportsboundary
-ātim → UNKNOWN
Medieval Latin → Beyond secure reconstruction · knowledge boundary
- SOUND
- No deeper unique ancestor is promoted for -atim.
- MEANING
- The component branch ends at the reviewed Latin formation.
- SCHOLAR / EDITOR
- SET-U editorial boundary
Etymology endpoint at Latin -atim patternDefines the reviewed suffix horizon.
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verbatimSOURCE-REPORTED
verbatim
Merriam-Webster first-known-use report for adverbial verbatim
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COMPARATIVE EVIDENCE
COGNATES, DESCENDANTS, AND RELATIVES
word-for-word
Englishtransparent semantic equivalent
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GEOGRAPHIC AND TEMPORAL CLAIMS
JOURNEY STAGES THAT CITE THIS SOURCE
stage 2supports
Medieval Latin learned tradition
Supplies the Medieval Latin formation.
Etymology: Medieval Latin verbatim from verbum + -atim · broadstage 3supports
Global English
Supplies both English sense horizons.
First Known Use: adverb 15th century; adjective 1613 · global070
NON-GENEALOGICAL CONNECTIONS
HISTORICAL CONTEXT, KEPT SEPARATE
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