vert

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /vɜːt/
• (US) IPA^(key): /vɝt/
• Rhymes: -ɜː(r)t

Borrowed from Old French vert, from Latin viridis.

vert (countable and uncountable, plural verts)

1. (heraldry) A green colour, now only in heraldry; represented in engraving by diagonal parallel lines 45 degrees counter-clockwise.
2. (archaic) Green undergrowth or other vegetation growing in a forest, as a potential cover for deer.
3. (archaic) The right to fell trees or cut shrubs in a forest.
   • 1819, Walter Scott, Ivanhoe

     “I understand thee,” said the King, “and the Holy Clerk shall have a grant of vert and venison in my woods of Warncliffe.”

• vt. in heraldic contexts.

vert (comparative more vert, superlative most vert)

1. (heraldry) In blazon, of the colour green.

• verdant

Abbreviation of vertical.

vert (plural verts)

1. (colloquial) In sport, a type of bicycle stunt competition.
2. A vertical surface used by skateboarders or skiers.

Abbreviation of vertebrate.

vert (plural verts)

1. (biology, informal) vertebrate

• Appendix:Colors

• Trev, Tver, trev

From Old French vert, from Vulgar Latin virdis, virdem, from Latin viridis, viridem.

• IPA^(key): /vɛʁ/

• France (Paris)

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• France (West)

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• (Quebec) IPA^(key): /vaɛ̯ʁ/

• Quebec (Quebec City)

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• (Louisiana) IPA^(key): /væ(r)/
• Homophones: ver, verre, verres, vers, verts, vair, vaire
• Rhymes: -ɛʁ

vert m (plural verts)

1. green

vert (feminine singular verte, masculine plural verts, feminine plural vertes)

1. green

• verdâtre
• verdir
• verger

• Haitian Creole: vèt, vè
• → Wolof: wert

• “vert” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

• verd

From Vulgar Latin virdis, virdem, from Latin viridis, viridem.

vert

1. green

• verze

ver +‎ -t

• IPA^(key): [ˈvɛrt]
• Hyphenation: vert

vert

1. third-person singular indicative past indefinite of ver
2. past participle of ver

From Middle Low German wert.

• IPA^(key): /ʋæʈ/
• Homophones: hvert, verdt, vært
• Rhymes: -æʈ

vert m (definite singular verten, indefinite plural verter, definite plural vertene)

1. a host (also in biology)
2. a landlord

• togvert
• vertsmaskin

• “vert” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Borrowed from Middle Low German wert.

vert m (definite singular verten, indefinite plural vertar, definite plural vertane)

1. a host (also in biology)
2. a landlord

vert

1. present tense of verta/verte
2. imperative of verta/verte

• “vert” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

From Vulgar Latin virdis, virdem, from Latin viridis, viridem.

vert m (oblique plural verz or vertz, nominative singular verz or vertz, nominative plural vert)

1. green

vert m (oblique and nominative feminine singular vert)

1. green, of a green color

• vergier

• Bourguignon: vord
• Middle French: verd, vert
  • French: vert
    • Haitian Creole: vèt, vè
    • → Wolof: wert
• Picard: verd
• Norman: vaert, vèrt
• Walloon: vert
• → English: vert

From Old French vert, from Vulgar Latin virdis, virdem, from Latin viridis, viridem.

vert

1. green