Where does “verse” come from?
Verse comes from Latin versus, the past participle of Latin vertere meaning "to turn," ultimately from Proto-Indo-European wer- with the same sense.
verse (English): A poetic form with regular meter and a fixed...
Definitions
- A poetic form with regular meter and a fixed...
Ancestry of “verse”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Middle English | vers | A line or passage of a text or work; A larger... |
| 2 | Old English | fers | verse; sentence, title |
| 3 | Latin | versus | turned, changed, having been turned; towards,... |
| 4 | Latin | vertō | to turn, turn oneself, direct one's way, to turn about, turn around, revolve |
| 5 | Proto-Italic | wertō | to turn |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-European | wert- | to turn, to rotate |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | wer- | to burn; to cover, heed, notice; squirrel |