verbo

From Latin verbum.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbeɾbo/
• Rhymes: -eɾbo
• Syllabification: ver‧bo

verbo m (plural verbos)

1. verb

Borrowed from French verbe, Italian verbo and English verb, ultimately from Latin verbum.

• IPA^(key): /ˈverbo/

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• Rhymes: -erbo
• Syllabification: ver‧bo

verbo (accusative singular verbon, plural verboj, accusative plural verbojn)

1. (grammar) verb

• verba

• “verbo”, in Plena Ilustrita Vortaro de Esperanto [Complete Illustrated Dictionary of Esperanto], 2020, →ISBN
• “verbo”, in Reta Vortaro [Online Dictionary] (in Esperanto), 1997-2026

Derived from Latin verbum.

verbo m (plural verbos)

1. verb

From Esperanto verbo, from English verb, French verbe, German Verb, Italian verbo, Spanish verbo, ultimately from Latin verbum from Proto-Indo-European *werdʰo- (“word”).

verbo (plural verbi)

1. (grammar, logic) verb

• verboformo

From Latin verbum.

verbo (plural verbos)

1. verb
2. word

• le Verbo = The Word

• verbal
• verbose
• adverbio
• proverbio

From Latin verbum (“word, verb”), from Proto-Italic *werðom (“word”), from Proto-Indo-European *werdʰo- (“word”), from root *werh₁- (“to speak, to say”) + extension *-dʰ-.

• IPA^(key): /ˈvɛr.bo/
• Rhymes: -ɛrbo
• Hyphenation: vèr‧bo

verbo m (plural verbi)

1. (grammar) verb
   • 1526, Niccolò Liburnio, “La qualità dell’opera, e la divisione per lo medesimo Messer Niccolò Liburnio [The quality of the work, and the division [thereof] by Sir Niccolò Liburnio himself]”, in Le tre fontane‎^[1], page 3:

     Verbo dimoſtra qualche coſa ò per alcuno, ò per alcuni fatta; com’è; Amo, Contemplo; Amarono, Contemplarono

     [Verbo dimostra qualche cosa o per alcuno, o per alcuni fatta […] ]

     A verb expresses something done by one, or more [people]; such as amo, contemplo, [and] amarono, contemplarono

   • 1744, Jacopo Angelo Nelli, “Del modo di conoscere l'Attivo ed il Passivo [How to recognize the active and the passive]”, in Grammatica italiana: per uso de' giovanetti [Italian Grammar: for use by young people]‎^[2], Turin: Stamperia Reale, Del Verbo, page 40:

     QUando ſi trovaſſe difficoltà ne’ giovanetti in conoſcer, quando il verbo è attivo, o paſſivo, potrà loro farſi oſſervare nella declinazione […] ſe la prima perſona, o ſeconda, o terza fa, o ſoffre l’azione

     [Quando si trovasse difficoltà ne' giovanetti in conoscer, quando il verbo è attivo, o passivo, potrà loro farsi osservare, nella declinazione […] se la prima persona, o seconda, o terza fa, o soffre l'azione]

     Should the youths have difficulty recognizing whether the verb is active or passive, they can be made to observe, in the declension, whether the first, or second, or third person performs or experiences the action

2. (theology, religion, dated in other senses) word

   Synonym: parola

   • [90-110], Giovanni [John], Bibbia [Bible], volume Nuovo Testamento [New Testament] (canonical gospel), Vangelo secondo Giovanni [Gospel according to John], chapter 1, verse 1, lines 1–3:

     In principio era il Verbo,
     il Verbo era presso Dio
     e il Verbo era Dio.

     In the beginning was the Word,
     the Word was with God
     and the Word was God.

     (literally, “In the beginning was the verb,
     the verb was with god
     and the verb was god.”)

• “verbo”, in Vocabolario Treccani on line (in Italian), Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana, 2026

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈwɛr.boː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈvɛr.bo]

verbō

1. dative/ablative singular of verbum

• "verbo", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)

PIE word
*werdʰom

Derived from Latin verbō (“word; verb”), the ablative singular of verbum (“word; verb”), from Proto-Italic *werðom (“word”), from Proto-Indo-European *werdʰom (“word, speech”), from the Proto-Indo-European root *werh₁- (“to speak, say”).

• IPA^(key): /¹ˈʋær.bʊ/, [ˈʋæ̀ɾ.bʊ̌]

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• Rhymes: -ærbʊ
• Hyphenation: ver‧bo

verbo

1. only used in a verbo (“in the principal parts of a verb”)
   • 1837, G. Knudsen, Norsk Grammatik til Brug i Skoler og ved privat Underviisning, page 58:

     at nævne et verbum i dets 4 stamformer kaldes: at sige, hvad et ord har a verbo

     to state a verb in its four stem forms is called stating what forms a word has a verbo

• “a verbo” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• “a verbo” in Norwegian Academy Dictionary (NAOB).

From Old Galician-Portuguese verbo, vervo, from Latin verbum (“word, verb”), from Proto-Italic *werðom (“word”), from Proto-Indo-European *werdʰom (“word”).

• Hyphenation: ver‧bo

verbo m (plural verbos)

1. (grammar) verb
2. (now uncommon) language, use of words

   Synonyms: linguagem, palavra

3. (archaic) saying, proverb, maxim

   Synonyms: ditado, provérbio, máxima

4. (theology, religion) Word
   • John 1:1-4

     No princípio era o Verbo (...)

     In the beginning was the Word (...)

• verbal
• verbalizar
• verborragia

• “verbo”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “verbo”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

Borrowed from Latin verbum, from Proto-Indo-European *werdʰom (“word”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈbeɾbo/ [ˈbeɾ.β̞o]

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• Rhymes: -eɾbo
• Syllabification: ver‧bo

verbo m (plural verbos)

1. (grammar) verb

• “verbo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025