verter

Galician

Etymology

From Latin vertere, from Proto-Italic *wertō, from Proto-Indo-European *wértti.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [beɾˈteɾ]

Verb

verter (first-person singular present verto, first-person singular preterite vertín, past participle vertido)
verter (first-person singular present verto, first-person singular preterite vertim or verti, past participle vertido, reintegrationist norm)

1. (intransitive) to leak
2. (transitive) to pour
3. (intransitive or pronominal) to spill, shed

Conjugation

    Conjugation of verter

	Singular			Plural
	First-person (eu)	Second-person (ti)	Third-person (el / ela / Vde.)	First-person (nós)	Second-person (vós)	Third-person (eles / elas / Vdes.)
Infinitive
Impersonal	verter
Personal	verter	verteres	verter	vertermos	verterdes	verteren
Gerund
	vertendo
Past participle
Masculine	vertido			vertidos
Feminine	vertida			vertidas
Indicative
Present	verto	vertes	verte	vertemos	vertedes	verten
Imperfect	vertía	vertías	vertía	vertiamos	vertiades	vertían
Preterite	vertín	vertiches	verteu	vertemos	vertestes	verteron
Pluperfect	vertera	verteras	vertera	verteramos	verterades	verteran
Future	verterei	verterás	verterá	verteremos	verteredes	verterán
Conditional	vertería	verterías	vertería	verteriamos	verteriades	verterían
Subjunctive
Present	verta	vertas	verta	vertamos	vertades	vertan
Imperfect	vertese	verteses	vertese	vertésemos	vertésedes	vertesen
Future	verter	verteres	verter	vertermos	verterdes	verteren
Imperative
Affirmative		verte	verta	vertamos	vertede	vertan
Negative (non)		non vertas	non verta	non vertamos	non vertades	non vertan

    Reintegrated conjugation of verter (See Appendix:Reintegrationism)

	Singular			Plural
	First-person (eu)	Second-person (ti / tu)	Third-person (ele / ela / você)	First-person (nós)	Second-person (vós)	Third-person (eles / elas / vocês)
Infinitive
Impersonal	verter
Personal	verter	verteres	verter	vertermos	verterdes	verterem
Gerund
	vertendo
Past participle
Masculine	vertido			vertidos
Feminine	vertida			vertidas
Indicative
Present	verto	vertes	verte	vertemos	vertedes, verteis	vertem
Imperfect	vertia	vertias	vertia	vertíamos	vertíades, vertíeis, vertíais1	vertiam
Preterite	vertim, verti	verteste, verteche1	verteu	vertemos	vertestes	vertêrom, verteram
Pluperfect	vertera	verteras	vertera	vertêramos	vertêrades, vertêreis, vertêrais1	verteram
Future	verterei	verterás	verterá	verteremos	verteredes, vertereis	verterám, verterão
Conditional	verteria	verterias	verteria	verteríamos	verteríades, verteríeis, verteríais1	verteriam
Subjunctive
Present	verta	vertas	verta	vertamos	vertades, vertais	vertam
Imperfect	vertesse	vertesses	vertesse	vertêssemos	vertêssedes, vertêsseis	vertessem
Future	verter	verteres	verter	vertermos	verterdes	verterem
Imperative
Affirmative		verte	verta	vertamos	vertede, vertei	vertam
Negative (nom)		nom vertas	nom verta	nom vertamos	nom vertades, nom vertais	nom vertam

¹Less recommended.

Derived terms

• verter augas (“to urinate”, literally “to shed waters”)
• vertedoiro

Related terms

• vértebra

References

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “verter”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “verter”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “verter”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• “verter”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2024
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “verter”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• “verter” in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (2014).
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “verter”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

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Noun

verter m

1. indefinite plural of vert

Portuguese

Etymology

From Latin vertere, from Proto-Italic *wertō, from Proto-Indo-European *wértti.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /veʁˈte(ʁ)/ [vehˈte(h)]

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /veʁˈte(ʁ)/ [vehˈte(h)]
  • (São Paulo) IPA^(key): /veɾˈte(ɾ)/
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /veʁˈte(ʁ)/ [veχˈte(χ)]
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /veɻˈte(ɻ)/

 

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /vɨɾˈteɾ/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /vɨɾˈteɾ/
  • (Northern Portugal) IPA^(key): /bɨɾˈteɾ/
  • (Southern Portugal) IPA^(key): /vɨɾˈte.ɾi/

• Hyphenation: ver‧ter

Verb

verter (first-person singular present verto, first-person singular preterite verti, past participle vertido)

1. (intransitive) to leak
2. (transitive) to pour
3. (transitive) to spill
4. (transitive) to well; to flow (to issue forth)
5. (intransitive, unaccusative) to translate, to be translated [with para ‘into another language’]

   Synonym: traduzir

   • 2014, João Magueijo, chapter 4, in Bifes Mal Passados: Passeios e outras catástrofes por terras de Sua Majestade, →ISBN:

     Uma sua variante particularmente chavascosa são as férias dos lads, isto não verte bem para português, quer dizer férias de um grupo de «rapazes», da «malta», mas muito à inglesa, em suma, uma gandulagem do piorio.

     One such particularly annoying variant is the "lad's vacation", which doesn't translate well into Portuguese, meaning a vacation of a group of "boys", of "troublemakers", but very much in the English style, in sum, the worst sort of slacking off.

Conjugation

    Conjugation of verter (See Appendix:Portuguese verbs)

	Singular			Plural
	First-person (eu)	Second-person (tu)	Third-person (ele / ela / você)	First-person (nós)	Second-person (vós)	Third-person (eles / elas / vocês)
Infinitive
Impersonal	verter
Personal	verter	verteres	verter	vertermos	verterdes	verterem
Gerund
	vertendo
Past participle
Masculine	vertido			vertidos
Feminine	vertida			vertidas
Indicative
Present	verto	vertes	verte	vertemos	verteis	vertem
Imperfect	vertia	vertias	vertia	vertíamos	vertíeis	vertiam
Preterite	verti	verteste	verteu	vertemos	vertestes	verteram
Pluperfect	vertera	verteras	vertera	vertêramos	vertêreis	verteram
Future	verterei	verterás	verterá	verteremos	vertereis	verterão
Conditional	verteria	verterias	verteria	verteríamos	verteríeis	verteriam
Subjunctive
Present	verta	vertas	verta	vertamos	vertais	vertam
Imperfect	vertesse	vertesses	vertesse	vertêssemos	vertêsseis	vertessem
Future	verter	verteres	verter	vertermos	verterdes	verterem
Imperative
Affirmative		verte	verta	vertamos	vertei	vertam
Negative (não)		não vertas	não verta	não vertamos	não vertais	não vertam

Related terms

• vértebra

Spanish

Etymology

From Latin vertere, present active infinitive of Latin vertō, from Proto-Italic *wertō, from Proto-Indo-European *wértti; whence English vertex, vortex and vertigo. Cognate with French verser.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /beɾˈteɾ/ [beɾˈt̪eɾ]
• Rhymes: -eɾ
• Syllabification: ver‧ter

Verb

verter (first-person singular present vierto, first-person singular preterite vertí, past participle vertido)

1. (transitive) to pour, spill, shed

   Synonym: derramar

Conjugation

    Conjugation of verter (e-ie alternation) (See Appendix:Spanish verbs)

infinitive			verter
gerund			vertiendo
past participle				masculine		feminine
		singular		vertido		vertida
		plural		vertidos		vertidas
		singular			plural
		1st person	2nd person	3rd person	1st person	2nd person	3rd person
indicative		yo	tú vos	él/ella/ello usted	nosotros nosotras	vosotros vosotras	ellos/ellas ustedes
	present	vierto	viertestú vertésvos	vierte	vertemos	vertéis	vierten
	imperfect	vertía	vertías	vertía	vertíamos	vertíais	vertían
	preterite	vertí	vertiste	vertió	vertimos	vertisteis	vertieron
	future	verteré	verterás	verterá	verteremos	verteréis	verterán
	conditional	vertería	verterías	vertería	verteríamos	verteríais	verterían
subjunctive		yo	tú vos	él/ella/ello usted	nosotros nosotras	vosotros vosotras	ellos/ellas ustedes
	present	vierta	viertastú vertásvos2	vierta	vertamos	vertáis	viertan
	imperfect (ra)	vertiera	vertieras	vertiera	vertiéramos	vertierais	vertieran
	imperfect (se)	vertiese	vertieses	vertiese	vertiésemos	vertieseis	vertiesen
	future1	vertiere	vertieres	vertiere	vertiéremos	vertiereis	vertieren
imperative		—	tú vos	usted	nosotros nosotras	vosotros vosotras	ustedes
	affirmative		viertetú vertévos	vierta	vertamos	verted	viertan
	negative		no viertas	no vierta	no vertamos	no vertáis	no viertan

¹Mostly obsolete, now mainly used in legal language.
²Argentine and Uruguayan voseo prefers the tú form for the present subjunctive.

    Selected combined forms of verter (e-ie alternation)

These forms are generated automatically and may not actually be used. Pronoun usage varies by region.

		singular			plural
		1st person	2nd person	3rd person	1st person	2nd person	3rd person
with infinitive verter	dative	verterme	verterte	verterle, verterse	verternos	verteros	verterles, verterse
	accusative	verterme	verterte	verterlo, verterla, verterse	verternos	verteros	verterlos, verterlas, verterse
with gerund vertiendo	dative	vertiéndome	vertiéndote	vertiéndole, vertiéndose	vertiéndonos	vertiéndoos	vertiéndoles, vertiéndose
	accusative	vertiéndome	vertiéndote	vertiéndolo, vertiéndola, vertiéndose	vertiéndonos	vertiéndoos	vertiéndolos, vertiéndolas, vertiéndose
with informal second-person singular tú imperative vierte	dative	viérteme	viértete	viértele	viértenos	not used	viérteles
	accusative	viérteme	viértete	viértelo, viértela	viértenos	not used	viértelos, viértelas
with informal second-person singular vos imperative verté	dative	verteme	vertete	vertele	vertenos	not used	verteles
	accusative	verteme	vertete	vertelo, vertela	vertenos	not used	vertelos, vertelas
with formal second-person singular imperative vierta	dative	viértame	not used	viértale, viértase	viértanos	not used	viértales
	accusative	viértame	not used	viértalo, viértala, viértase	viértanos	not used	viértalos, viértalas
with first-person plural imperative vertamos	dative	not used	vertámoste	vertámosle	vertámonos	vertámoos	vertámosles
	accusative	not used	vertámoste	vertámoslo, vertámosla	vertámonos	vertámoos	vertámoslos, vertámoslas
with informal second-person plural imperative verted	dative	vertedme	not used	vertedle	vertednos	verteos	vertedles
	accusative	vertedme	not used	vertedlo, vertedla	vertednos	verteos	vertedlos, vertedlas
with formal second-person plural imperative viertan	dative	viértanme	not used	viértanle	viértannos	not used	viértanles, viértanse
	accusative	viértanme	not used	viértanlo, viértanla	viértannos	not used	viértanlos, viértanlas, viértanse

Derived terms

• vertedero (“landfill”)
• vertimiento

 

Related terms

• vertedera
• vertiente

 

Further reading

• “verter”, 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