verde

See also: Verde, vérde, and vèrde

Aragonese

Etymology

Inherited from Vulgar Latin virdis, syncopated from Latin viridis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbeɾde/
• Rhymes: -eɾde
• Syllabification: ver‧de

Adjective

verde (feminine verda, masculine plural verdes, feminine plural verdas)

1. green (color/colour)

References

• “verde”, in Aragonario, diccionario castellano–aragonés (in Spanish)
• Bal Palazios, Santiago (2002) “verde”, in Dizionario breu de a luenga aragonesa, Zaragoza, →ISBN

Asturian

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin virdis, syncopated from Latin viridis. Cognate with English verdure, French vert, and various Romance homonyms.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbeɾde/, [ˈbeɾ.ð̞e]
• Rhymes: -eɾde
• Hyphenation: ver‧de

Adjective

verde c (plural verdes)

1. green (color/colour)

Noun

verde m (plural verdes)

1. green (color/colour)

Derived terms

• verdura

Corsican

U culore verde.

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin virdis, syncopated from Latin viridis. Cognates include Italian verde and French vert.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈvɛrdɛ/, /ˈbɛrdɛ/
• Hyphenation: ver‧de

Adjective

verde (plural verzi)

1. green (color/colour)

Noun

verde m (plural verdi)

1. green (color/colour)
2. (mineralogy) smaragdite

References

• “verde, verdi” in INFCOR: Banca di dati di a lingua corsa

Dutch

Etymology

A back-formation by analogy with the comparative verder.

Adjective

verde

1. Obsolete form of verre.

Anagrams

• dreve, veder, vrede

Esperanto

Adverb

verde

1. greenly
   green:  

Related terms

• verda (“green”, adjective)
• verdi (“to be green”, verb)
• verdo (“the color green”, noun)

Galician

Devesa do Oribio, Lugo, Galicia

Verdes ("unripe")

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese verde, from Vulgar Latin virdis, syncopated from Latin viridis. Cognate with English verdure and vert, as well as various Romance homonyms.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbeɾde/ [ˈbeɾ.ð̞ɪ]
• Rhymes: -eɾde
• Hyphenation: ver‧de

Adjective

verde m or f (plural verdes)

1. green (color/colour)
2. unripe
3. (archaic) green or blue
   • c. 1300, R. Martínez López, editor, General Estoria. Versión gallega del siglo XIV, Oviedo: Archivum, page 134:

     O elamẽto da agoa figurauãna por rrazõ do mar, em semellança de varom et outrosi de hũa grande ymage, et coroada et nõ aposta mays fea et cõmo em semellança de quẽ espanta; et as suas vestiduras de duas colores, que agoa tantas ha proprias, de jalde et de verde

     And the element of the water figured by reason of the sea, looking like a man, as a large image, crowned, and not handsome but ugly and with a terrifying look; and his clothes were of two colors, which the water has as its own, yellow and blue [lit. green]

Noun

verde m (plural verdes)

1. green (color/colour)

Derived terms

• verdello
• verdura

See also

Colors in Galician · cores (layout · text)

branco	gris	negro, preto
vermello; carmín	laranxa; castaño, marrón	amarelo; crema
verde lima	verde	menta; verde escuro
ciano; azul verdoso	cerúleo	azul
violeta; anil	maxenta; púrpura	rosa

References

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “verde”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “verde”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “verde”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “verde”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “verde”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

Interlingua

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian, Spanish, or Portuguese verde.

Adjective

verde

1. green (color/colour)

See also

Colors in Interlingua · colores (layout · text)

blanc, albe	gris	nigre
rubie	orange; brun	jalne; crema
verde lima	verde	verde mentha, acquamarine
cyano	azure	blau
violette; indigo	magenta; purpure	rosate

Italian

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin virdis, syncopated from Classical Latin viridis, from vireō. Cognate with English verdure, French vert, and various Romance homonyms.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈver.de/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -erde
• Hyphenation: vér‧de

Adjective

verde (plural verdi)

1. green (color/colour)
2. pale
3. unripe

Noun

verde m (plural verdi, diminutive verdìno or verdolìno or verdétto, augmentative verdóne, diminutive-derogatory verdìgno or verdógnolo)

1. green (color/colour)
2. verdure, greenery
3. (heraldry) vert

Derived terms

• inverdire
• verdastro
• verdazzurro
• verde oliva
• verde olivastro
• verdeggiare
• verdello
• verdemare, verde mare
• verdiccio
• verdognolo
• verdone
• verdura
• verduzzo

 

See also

Colors in Italian · colori (layout · text)

bianco	argento; grigio	nero
rosso; cremisi	arancione; marrone; bronzo	giallo; oro; crema
verde chiaro; limetta	verde	verde acqua; acquamarina; verde menta; verde menta scuro
ciano; azzurro; celeste; blu petrolio; foglia di tè	azzurro; celeste; celeste scuro	blu; blu scuro
violetto; indaco	magenta; viola	rosa; fucsia; porpora

Anagrams

• veder

Leonese

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin virdis, syncopated from Latin viridis.

Adjective

verde

1. green (color/colour)

References

• verde at the Diccionario Castellano-Leonés / Leonés-Castellano.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology 1

Adjective

verde

1. definite singular of verd
2. plural of verd

Etymology 2

Noun

verde n (definite singular verdet, indefinite plural verde, definite plural verda)

1. (pre-2012) alternative form of verd n
2. (pre-2012) alternative form of verdi m

Old Galician-Portuguese

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin virdis, syncopated from Latin viridis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈβeɾ.de/

Adjective

verde m or f (plural verdes)

1. green (color/colour)
   • 13th century, Cancioneiro da Ajuda, João Garcia de Guilhade, A 229: Amigos, non poss'eu negar (facsimile)

     [O]s ollos uerdes que eu ui / me façen ora andar aſſi.

     The green eyes which I have seen / have made me now be like this.

Descendants

• Fala: verdi
• Galician: verde
• Portuguese: verde (see there for further descendants)

See also

Colors in Old Galician-Portuguese · coores, colores (layout · text)

branco, blanco, alvo	gris	negro, preto
vermelho	castanho	amarelo
	verde
		azur
	cardẽo	rosa

Old Spanish

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin virdis, syncopated from Classical Latin viridis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈβeɾde/

Adjective

verde

1. green (color/colour)
   • 13th century, Gonzalo de Berceo, “Introducción”, in Milagros de Nuestra Señora:

     Yo maestro Gonçalvo de Verçeo nomnado
     Iendo en romeria caeçi en un prado
     Verde e bien sençido, de flores bien poblado,
     Logar cobdiçiaduero pora omne cansado.

     I mister Gonçalvo de Verçeo am called,
     wending upon a pilgrimage, came to a meadow's side,
     all green and not much pastured upon, with many flowers,
     an enticing spot for the weary men to abide.

Descendants

• Ladino: vedre
• Spanish: verde (see there for further descendants)

Portuguese

verde

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese verde (“green”), from Vulgar Latin virdis, syncopated from Classical Latin viridis (“green”). Doublet of víride, which was borrowed from Latin.

Cognate with Galician, Spanish, Italian, and Romanian verde, Catalan and Occitan verd, French vert and English vert, virid.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈveʁ.d͡ʒi/ [ˈveɦ.d͡ʒi]

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈveʁ.d͡ʒi/ [ˈveɦ.d͡ʒi]
  • (São Paulo) IPA^(key): /ˈveɾ.d͡ʒi/
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /ˈveʁ.d͡ʒi/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈveɻ.de/

 

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈveɾ.dɨ/ [ˈveɾ.ðɨ]

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈveɾ.dɨ/ [ˈveɾ.ðɨ]
  • (Northern Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈbeɾ.dɨ/ [ˈbeɾ.ðɨ]

• (Caipira, Sertanejo) IPA^(key): /ˈveɻ.dʒi/
• (Northeastern Brazil, Bahia) IPA^(key): /ˈveh.di/
• (Minas Gerais) IPA^(key): /ˈveh.dʒi/
• (Portuñol Riverense) IPA^(key): /ˈveɾ.de/

• Audio (Caipira):

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• Hyphenation: ver‧de

Adjective

verde m or f (plural verdes, diminutive verdinho)

1. green (color/colour)
2. (of fruit) unripe; green (not ripe, not ready to eat)

   Antonym: maduro

3. (figuratively) unripe; green (not fully developed)

   Synonym: imaturo

   Antonyms: maduro, maturado

4. green; environmentally friendly

   Synonym: ecológico

Derived terms

• Cabo Verde
• verdura
• vinho verde

Descendants

• Guinea-Bissau Creole: verdi
• Kabuverdianu: verdi
• Papiamentu: bèrdè

Noun

verde m (plural verdes)

1. green (color/colour)
2. greenery, vegetation

   Synonyms: verdura, vegetação, natureza

Related terms

• antiverde
• enverdecer
• esverdeado
• verdejar
• vergel

 

See also

Colors in Portuguese · cores (layout · text)

branco, alvo, cândido	cinza, gris, cinzento	preto, negro, atro
vermelho, encarnado, rubro, salmão; carmim	laranja, cor de laranja; castanho, marrom	amarelo, lúteo; creme, ocre
verde-limão	verde	verde-água; verde-menta
ciano, turquesa; azul-petróleo	azul-bebê, azul-celeste	azul, índigo, anil
violeta, lilás	magenta; roxo, púrpura	rosa, cor-de-rosa, rosa-choque

Further reading

• “verde”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2024

Romanian

Alternative forms

• верде (verde) — post-1930s Cyrillic spelling

Etymology

Inherited from Vulgar Latin virdis, syncopated from Classical Latin viridis. Related to English verdure.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈver.de/

• Audio (male voice):

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• Audio (female voice):

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• Rhymes: -erde
• Hyphenation: ver‧de

Adjective

verde m or f or n (plural verzi)

1. green (color/colour)

Declension

		singular				plural
		masculine	neuter	feminine		masculine	neuter	feminine
nominative- accusative	indefinite	verde		verde		verzi	verzi
	definite	verdele		verdea		verzii	verzile
genitive- dative	indefinite	verde		verzi		verzi	verzi
	definite	verdelui		verzii		verzilor	verzilor

Noun

verde n (uncountable)

1. green (color/colour)
2. (slang) green, marijuana

Declension

singular only	indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	verde	verdele
genitive-dative	verde	verdelui
vocative	verde

Derived terms

• verzui

Related terms

• înverzi
• verdeață
• varză

See also

Colors in Romanian · culori (layout · text)

alb	gri	negru
roșu; carmin	portocaliu; maro	galben; crem
	verde	verde mentă
cyan	bleu	albastru
violet; indigo	mov; purpură	roz

Spanish

Etymology

Inherited from Old Spanish verde, from Vulgar Latin virdis, syncopated from Classical Latin viridis. Cognate with English verdure and verdant, Catalan verd, French vert, as well as various Romance homonyms.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbeɾde/ [ˈbeɾ.ð̞e]

• Audio (Spain):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -eɾde
• Syllabification: ver‧de

Adjective

verde m or f (masculine and feminine plural verdes)

1. green (color/colour)

   La puerta es verde.

   The door is green.

2. green (eco-friendly)
3. unripe

   Synonym: inmaduro

4. (figurative) inexperienced; naïve
5. (figurative) risqué, naughty

   ¿Están verdes los vestidos?

   Are the dresses risqué?

6. (figurative) dirty, coarse

   Esos son chistes verdes

   Those are dirty jokes.

7. (figurative) unwell; sick

   ¿Estás verde?

   Are you unwell?

Usage notes

• When used with the verb ser, verde means literally green in colour, while the verb estar is used with figurative meanings of verde such as naïve, risqué, unwell or dirty.

Noun

verde m (plural verdes)

1. green (color/colour)

Derived terms

• albiverde
• billete verde
• chile verde
• eléboro verde
• enverdecer
• fractura en tallo verde
• garcita verde
• iguana verde
• Isla Verde
• luz verde
• manzana verde
• más raro que un perro verde
• perifollo verde
• poner verde
• poroto verde
• punto verde
• rabo verde
• salsa verde
• tortuga verde
• verde de París
• verde de Scheele
• verde París
• verde-París
• verdear
• verdinegro
• verdura
• vía verde
• zona verde

 

Related terms

• vergel

 

Descendants

• → Aklanon: berde
• → Basque: berde
• → Cebuano: berde
• → Chamorro: betde
• → Hiligaynon: berde
• → Inabaknon: berde
• → Tagalog: berde

See also

Colors in Spanish · colores (layout · text)

blanco	gris	negro
rojo; carmín, carmesí	naranja, anaranjado; marrón	amarillo; crema
lima	verde	menta
cian, turquesa; azul-petróleo	celeste, cerúleo	azul
violeta; añil, índigo	magenta; morado, púrpura	rosa, rosado

Further reading

• “verde”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10