verso

From Latin in versō foliō (“on the turned leaf, on the turned page”), the ablative case of the Latin versus (“turned, changed”) from the perfect passive participle of vertō (“turn”). Compare rēctus (“right”).

• Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)səʊ

verso (plural versos)

1. The back side of a flat object which is to be examined visually, as for reading, such as a sheet, leaf, coin or medal.
2. (printing) The left-hand page of a book of a script which reads from left to right, usually having an even page number.

• (back side of a flat object): back, flipside, backside

• (back side of a flat object): recto, obverse

• Vores, overs, roves, servo, vores

Borrowed from French vers, Italian verso, German Vers, English verse and Polish wiersz, all ultimately from Latin versus.

• IPA^(key): /ˈverso/
• Hyphenation: ver‧so
• Rhymes: -erso

verso (accusative singular verson, plural versoj, accusative plural versojn)

1. line of poetry

• versaĵo (“bit of verse”)

• Hyphenation: ver‧so

verso

1. sprout, shoot

• verbs: versoa

• servo

Borrowed from Latin verso, ablative of versus.

• IPA^(key): /vɛʁ.so/

verso m (plural versos)

1. verso, reverse, back, overleaf (of a page)
2. (printing) left-hand page

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

verso

1. overleaf

verso (plural versi)

1. verse

From Italian verso, French vers.

verso

1. towards

verso (plural versos)

1. verse
2. verso, back of a sheet of paper

• IPA^(key): /ˈvɛr.so/[1]

From Latin versus.

verso m (plural versi)

1. (poetry) verse
2. song
3. cackle (of a hen or goose)

From Latin versus (past participle of vertere).[2] Cognate to French vers (“towards”).

verso

1. toward

   Il fiume scorre lentamente verso il mare.

   The river flows slowly to the sea.

   Vieni verso di me. ― Come to me.

verso

1. first-person singular present of versare

verso

1. vicinity, proximity, nearby
2. around, near to, close to

   Arriverà verso mezzogiorno.

   She will arrive around noon.

• servo

• vorsō

Frequentative verb of vertō.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈwer.soː/, [ˈwɛr.soː]

versō (present infinitive versāre, perfect active versāvī, supine versātum); first conjugation

1. I turn often, keep turning, handle, whirl about, turn over
2. I turn over in mind, meditate.

¹The present passive infinitive in -ier is a rare poetic form which is attested for this verb.
²At least one rare poetic syncopated perfect form is attested.

versō

1. dative masculine singular of versus
2. dative neuter singular of versus
3. ablative masculine singular of versus
4. ablative neuter singular of versus

• verso in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• verso in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• verso in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• verse in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

From Latin versus, probably borrowed.

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈvɛɾsu/

verso m (plural versos)

1. verse
2. verso, reverse, back, overleaf (of a page)
3. (printing) verso, left-hand page

• versar

verso

1. First-person singular (eu) present indicative of versar

From Latin versus, probably borrowed; cf. the inherited Old Spanish viesso.

verso (feminine singular versa, masculine plural versos, feminine plural versas)

1. (mathematics) versed

verso m (plural versos)

1. verse, poem
2. verse, line (of a poem)
3. verso, reverse, back, overleaf (of a page)
4. (printing) verso, left-hand page
5. (artillery): small culverin (kind of cannon)
6. (colloquial) lie, story, porky

• versar

verso

1. First-person singular (yo) present indicative form of versar.