Translation
line of verse; verse (of scripture)
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Word origin
From Latin versus, a turning, from vertere ('to turn'). The turn is the ploughman's at the end of a furrow, and the poet's line was named after it because the writing turns back the same way.
- Origin
- Latin
- Root
- versus
- English cognates
- verse, version, reverse
Examples
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The poem has fourteen lines.
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He read one verse from the holy book.
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The poet changed the last line of his poem.
Be precise here, because English is not. A is one line of poetry; a group of lines, what an English speaker loosely calls a verse of a song, is a strofo. So a sonnet has fourteen arranged in four strofoj, and a hymn has strofoj even though English will call them verses all day long. The scriptural sense goes the other way and matches: a Bible is the numbered line. This chapter's grammar pair looks at poetic Esperanto, where you will meet the elided -o ( for ) that lets a poet fit a to its metre.
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Start your free weekThis word is taught in chapter 18, lesson 12: verso, operacio, hungaro and 6 more words.