Fromverber(“whip, rod”) +-ō(suffix forming first conjugation verbs).
verberō (present infinitiveverberāre,perfect activeverberāvī,supineverberātum);first conjugation
- tolash,scourge,whip,beat
- Synonyms:tangō,percutiō,pellō,feriō,mulcō,discutiō,pulsō,īcō,accīdō,affligō,impingō,percellō
1The present passive infinitive in-ier is a rare poetic form which is attested.
Fromverber(“whip, rod”) +-ō(suffix forming third declension masculine agent nouns).
For semantic parallels, compare loanwordmastīgia related toμάστιξ(mástix,“whip”).
verberō m (genitiveverberōnis);third declension
- (derogatory)scoundrel,rascal (worthy of being whipped)
- Synonyms:furcifer,mastīgia
Third-declension noun.
- “verbero”, inCharlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879)A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “verbero”, inCharlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879)A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “verbero”, inCharlton T. Lewis (1891)An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- "verbero", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’sGlossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- verbero inGaffiot, Félix (1934)Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894)Latin Phrase-Book[1], London:Macmillan and Co.
- to rain missiles on a town, bombard it:oppidum tormentis verberare
- William Dwight Whitney,Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “verberate”, inThe Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.:The Century Co.,→OCLC.
verbero
- first-personsingularpresentindicative ofverberar
