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7-letter words (1 found)

VERBENA,

6-letter words (1 found)

BEAVER,

5-letter words (16 found)

ARENE,ARVEE,BEARE,BEVER,BRANE,BRAVE,BREVE,ERVEN,NAEVE,NERVE,NEVER,RANEE,RAVEN,REAVE,VEENA,VENAE,

4-letter words (36 found)

ABER,AVER,BANE,BARE,BARN,BEAN,BEAR,BEEN,BEER,BENE,BERE,BRAE,BRAN,BREE,BREN,EARN,EAVE,EEVN,EREV,ERNE,EVEN,EVER,NABE,NARE,NAVE,NEAR,NEVE,RAVE,REAN,REEN,VANE,VARE,VEER,VENA,VERA,VERB,

3-letter words (33 found)

ANE,ARB,ARE,AVE,BAE,BAN,BAR,BEE,BEN,BRA,EAN,EAR,EEN,ENE,ERA,ERE,ERN,EVE,NAB,NAE,NAV,NEB,NEE,RAN,RAV,REB,REE,REN,REV,VAE,VAN,VAR,VEE,

2-letter words (13 found)

AB,AE,AN,AR,BA,BE,EA,EE,EN,ER,NA,NE,RE,

1-letter words (1 found)

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Definitions and meaning of verbena

verbena

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin verbēna (“leaves or twigs of olive, myrtle, laurel, or other sacred plants employed in religious ceremonies”), from Proto-Indo-European *werbʰ-. Doublet of vervain, via French.

Pronunciation

  • (General American) IPA(key): /vɝˈbinə/
  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /vɜːˈbiːnə/
  • Rhymes: -iːnə

Noun

verbena (countable and uncountable, plural verbenas)

  2. Verbena, a genus of herbaceous plants of which several species are extensively cultivated for the great beauty of their flowers; vervain.
    • 1918, Katherine Mansfield, Prelude (Selected Stories, Oxford World's Classics paperback 2002, 116)
      Linda pulled a piece of verbena and crumpled it, and held her hands to her mother. -

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See also

  • verbena on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
  • verbena on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
  • verbena on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

Catalan

Noun

verbena f (plural verbenes)

  1. Alternative form of berbena

Further reading

  • “verbena” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Finnish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin verbēna.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈʋerbenɑ/, [ˈʋe̞rbe̞nɑ̝]
  • Rhymes: -erbenɑ
  • Syllabification(key): ver‧be‧na

Noun

verbena

  1. verbena, beebrush (plant of genus Verbena)
  2. (in the plural) the genus Verbena

Declension

Synonyms

  • (plant and genus): rautayrtti

Derived terms

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin verbēna. Compare the doublet vermena.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /verˈbɛ.na/
  • Rhymes: -ɛna
  • Hyphenation: ver‧bè‧na

Noun

verbena f (plural verbene)

  1. verbena, vervain

Derived terms

  • Verbenacee

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *werβeznā, from Proto-Indo-European *werbʰ-, whence also Lithuanian virbas (“twig, branch, scion, rod”). This root is seemingly connected to *werb- (“to turn, bend”); further compare Middle Dutch warp, Middle Low German warp, German Warf, Danish varp, Swedish varp. Equivalent to verber +‎ -na.

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /u̯erˈbeː.na/, [u̯ɛrˈbeːnä]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /verˈbe.na/, [verˈbɛːnä]

Noun

verbēna f (genitive verbēnae); first declension

  1. foliage, especially that of olive, myrtle etc having religious and medicinal uses

Declension

First-declension noun.

Descendants

References

  • “verbena”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “verbena”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • verbena in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • “verbena”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • “verbena”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

Portuguese

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese, from Latin verbēna.

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: -ẽnɐ, -enɐ
  • Hyphenation: ver‧be‧na

Noun

verbena f (plural verbenas)

  1. (botany) common name, extended to plants of the genus Verbena, of the Verbenaceae family, mostly from the Americas, which includes species cultivated as ornamentals
  2. (botany) Verbena officinalis
    1. herbal tea prepared with this plant
  3. party with night festival; kermesse

Spanish

Etymology

Inherited from Old Spanish berbena, from Latin verbēna (see also Lithuanian virbas (“twig, branch, scion, rod”)). Cognate with Middle Dutch warp, Middle Low German warp, German Warf, Danish varp, Swedish varp.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /beɾˈbena/ [beɾˈβ̞e.na]
  • Rhymes: -ena
  • Syllabification: ver‧be‧na

Noun

verbena f (plural verbenas)

  1. verbena (Verbena, a genus of herbaceous plants of which several species are extensively cultivated for the great beauty of their flowers; vervain)
  2. a night-time fair or party

Derived terms

Further reading

  • “verbena”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

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