Noun: verba
Gender: f
Hyphenation:
| Singular f | verba |
| Plural f | verbes |
Sample Sentences
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Deixaren de parlar de l'hort i feien verbes sobre la llegenda del tresor. (They left off talking about the garden and made jokes about the legend of the treasure.) [1969, Jaume Vidal Alcover, Les quatre llunes:]
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T'has pensat que ho dic de verbes, Salamanca? (You thought I said it as a joke, Salamanca?) [2015, Sebastià Alzamora, La malcontenta:]
Nouns inflected like verba
taquicàrdia,
indumentària,
histerectomia,
secada,
seguda,
segura,
segada,
segona,
sedera,
sembra,
savina,
safata,
sageta,
sagita,
sagnia,
sabata,
sabana,
sacada,
sambra,
sanefa, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin verba, plural of verbum (“word”) reanalysed as a singular. See: Latin Nouns '
verba'.
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