verb: [14] Latin verbum originally meant simply ‘word’ (a sense preserved in English verbal [15], verbiage [18], and verbose [17]); the specific application to a ‘word expressing action or occurrence’, which passed into English via Old French verbe, is a secondary development. Verbum goes back ultimately to the Indo- European base *wer-, which also produced English word. English verve [17] comes ultimately from the Latin plural verba. => verbose, verve, word
verb (n.)
late 14c., from Old French verbe "word; word of God; saying; part of speech that expresses action or being" (12c.) and directly from Latin verbum "verb," originally "a word," from PIE root *were- (3) "to speak" (cognates: Avestan urvata- "command;" Sanskrit vrata- "command, vow;" Greek rhetor "public speaker," rhetra "agreement, covenant," eirein "to speak, say;" Hittite weriga- "call, summon;" Lithuanian vardas "name;" Gothic waurd, Old English word "word").
雙語例句
1. How does this verb conjugate?
這個動詞有哪些詞形變化？
來自《權威詞典》
2. a verb with an irregular conjugation
不規則動詞
來自《權威詞典》
3. The verb is in the subjunctive.
這個動詞是虛擬語氣。
來自《權威詞典》
4. Of all these verbs the verb is the most extensively used.
在這些動詞中應用範圍最廣的是這個動詞.
來自《簡明英漢詞典》
5. In narrative, the reporting verb is in the past tense.