# verro
## Catalan
### Alternative forms

* verre, verri

### Etymology

Inherited from Latin verres, perhaps via a Vulgar Latin *verrus, for which cf. Italian verro.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central) [ˈbɛ.ru]
* IPA: (Balearic, Valencia) [ˈvɛ.ro]

### Noun

verro m (plural verros, feminine verra)
* boar (uncastrated male hog)
* (figurative) pig (crude man)

#### Derived terms

* verratell
* verrim

### References

* “verro” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

### Further reading

* “verro” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

## Galician
### Alternative forms

* barro, belro, berro

### Etymology

Attested since the 18th century. Probably from Latin varus (“eruption”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈbɛrʊ]

### Noun

verro m (plural verros)
* (veterinary medicine) cattle's subcutaneous swelling caused by larvae
    Synonym: vérrago

### References

* Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “verro”, 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), “verro”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “verro”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN
* ↑ Joan Coromines, José A[ntonio] Pascual (1983–1991) “barro II”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critical Castilian and Hispanic Etymological Dictionary] (in Spanish), Madrid: Gredos

## Italian
### Etymology

From Latin verres, with a change in declension.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈvɛr.ro/
* Rhymes: -ɛrro
* Hyphenation: vèr‧ro

### Noun

verro m (plural verri)
* boar (male pig)

## Latin
### Etymology

From Proto-Italic *wors-o-, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *wers- (“to wipe, to drag on the ground”).
Compare Hittite [Term?] (/⁠warš⁠/, “pluck, reap”), Albanian zvarrë (“drag on the ground”), Ancient Greek ἔρρω (érrhō, “to move slowly, limp”), Old Norse vǫrr (“stroke”), Latvian vârsms (“heap of corn, grain”).

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈu̯er.roː/, [ˈu̯ɛrːoː]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈver.ro/, [ˈvɛrːo]

### Verb

verrō (present infinitive verrere, perfect active verrī, supine versum); third conjugation
* to scrape, sweep out or up, brush, scour, clean out
    Synonyms: dēverrō, converrō
* to sweep along, drive, impel
* to sweep away, carry off, take away
** 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 1.58–59:Nī faciat, maria ac terrās caelumque profundum quippe ferant rapidī sēcum verrantque per aurās.If [Aeolous] should not do [this], [protecting] seas and lands and the vast sky, undoubtedly the all-consuming [winds] would carry [everything] with them and sweep [it all] away through the emptiness. (King Aeolus restrains stormwinds which otherwise would destroy the world. See: Aeolus (son of Hippotes).)
* to cover, hide, conceal
    Synonyms: vēlō, dissimulō, occultō, indūcō, operiō, obnūbō, occulō, condō, recondō, obruō, adoperiō, nūbō, tegō, abscondō, abdō, cooperiō, obvolvō, comprimō, prōtegō, premō, opprimō, mergō
    Antonyms: adaperiō, aperiō, patefaciō

#### Derived terms

* converrō
* dēverrō
* *versōria
* *versūra

#### Descendants

* Occitano-Romance:
** ⇒ Catalan: barrejar
** ⇒ Occitan: barrejar
* Ibero-Romance:
** Old Galician-Portuguese: varrer
*** Fala: barrel
*** Galician: varrer
*** Portuguese: varrer
** Spanish: barrer (see there for further descendants)

### References

* ↑ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “ve/orrō, -ere”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 666
* ↑ “Indogermanisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch”, J. Pokorny, 1959, Bern : Francke

### Further reading

* “verro”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* “verro”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
* verro in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
* Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co. (ambiguous) in all directions: quoquo versus; in omnes partes (ambiguous) to advance in the direction of Rome: Romam versus proficisci (ambiguous) to write poetry: versus facere, scribere (ambiguous) to write poetry with facility: carmina , versus fundere (De Or. 3. 50)