# verde
## Aragonese
### Etymology

Inherited from Vulgar Latin virdis, syncopated from Latin viridis.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈbeɾde/
* Rhymes: -eɾde
* Syllabification: ver‧de

### Adjective

verde (feminine verda, masculine plural verdes, feminine plural verdas)
* 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: /ˈbeɾde/ [ˈbeɾ.ð̞e]
* Rhymes: -eɾde
* Syllabification: ver‧de

### Adjective

verde c (plural verdes)
* green (color/colour)

### Noun

verde m (plural verdes)
* green (color/colour)

#### Derived terms

* verdura

## Corsican
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈvɛrdɛ/, /ˈbɛrdɛ/
* Hyphenation: ver‧de

### Adjective

verde (plural verzi)
* green (color/colour)

### Noun

verde m (plural verdi)
* green (color/colour)
* (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
* Obsolete form of verre.

### Anagrams

* dreve, veder, vrede

## Esperanto
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈverde]
* Rhymes: -erde
* Hyphenation: ver‧de

### Adverb

verde
* greenly green:

#### Related terms

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

## Galician
### 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: /ˈbeɾde/ [ˈbeɾ.ð̞ɪ]
* Rhymes: -eɾde
* Hyphenation: ver‧de

### Adjective

verde m or f (plural verdes)
* green (color/colour)
    A raís do toxo verde é moi dura de arrigar.The root of the green purple is hard to irrigate.
* unripe
* (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 verdeAnd 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)
* 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: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* 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
* 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: /ˈver.de/
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -erde
* Hyphenation: vér‧de

### Adjective

verde (plural verdi)
* green (color/colour)
* pale
* unripe

### Noun

verde m (plural verdi, diminutive verdìno or verdolìno or verdétto, augmentative verdóne, diminutive-derogatory verdìgno or verdógnolo)
* green (color/colour)
* verdure, greenery
* (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
* green (color/colour)

### References

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

## Norwegian Nynorsk
### Etymology 1
#### Adjective

verde
* definite singular of verd
* plural of verd

### Etymology 2
#### Noun

verde n (definite singular verdet, indefinite plural verde, definite plural verda)
* (pre-2012) alternative form of verd n
* (pre-2012) alternative form of verdi m

## Old Galician-Portuguese
### Etymology

From Vulgar Latin virdis, syncopated from Latin viridis.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈβeɾ.de/

### Adjective

verde m or f (plural verdes)
* 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: /ˈβeɾde/

### Adjective

verde
* 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
### 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: /ˈveʁ.d͡ʒi/ [ˈveɦ.d͡ʒi]
* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈveʁ.d͡ʒi/ [ˈveɦ.d͡ʒi]
** (São Paulo) IPA: /ˈveɾ.d͡ʒi/
** (Rio de Janeiro) IPA: /ˈveʁ.d͡ʒi/
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /ˈveɻ.de/
* (Portugal) IPA: /ˈveɾ.dɨ/ [ˈveɾ.ðɨ]
* (Portugal) IPA: /ˈveɾ.dɨ/ [ˈveɾ.ðɨ]
** (Northern Portugal) IPA: /ˈbeɾ.dɨ/ [ˈbeɾ.ðɨ]
* (Caipira, Sertanejo) IPA: /ˈveɻ.dʒi/
* (Northeastern Brazil, Bahia) IPA: /ˈveh.di/
* (Minas Gerais) IPA: /ˈveh.dʒi/
* (Portuñol Riverense) IPA: /ˈveɾ.de/
* Audio (Caipira):(file)
* Hyphenation: ver‧de

### Adjective

verde m or f (plural verdes, diminutive verdinho)
* green (color/colour)
* (of fruit) unripe; green (not ripe, not ready to eat)
    Antonym: maduro
* (figuratively) unripe; green (not fully developed)
    Synonym: imaturo
    Antonyms: maduro, maturado
* 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)
* green (color/colour)
* 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, 2008–2025

## 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: /ˈver.de/
* Audio (male voice):(file)
* Audio (female voice):(file)
* Rhymes: -erde
* Hyphenation: ver‧de

### Adjective

verde m or f or n (plural verzi)
* green (color/colour)

#### Declension
### Noun

verde n (uncountable)
* green (color/colour)
* (slang) green, marijuana

#### 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: /ˈbeɾde/ [ˈbeɾ.ð̞e]
* Audio (Spain):(file)
* Rhymes: -eɾde
* Syllabification: ver‧de

### Adjective

verde m or f (masculine and feminine plural verdes)
* green (color/colour)
    La puerta es verde.The door is green.
* green (eco-friendly)
* unripe
    Synonym: inmaduro
* (figurative) inexperienced; naïve
* (figurative) risqué, naughty
    ¿Están verdes los vestidos?Are the dresses risqué?
* (figurative) dirty, coarse
    Esos son chistes verdesThose are dirty jokes.
* (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)
* green (color/colour)

#### Derived terms

* albiverde
* billete verde
* Cabo 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