Verbal latin origin
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A verbal noun is a noun derived from a verb and sharing in its senses and constructions.
also from early 15c.
Entries linking to verbal
late 14c., verbe, "a word" (a sense now obsolete but preserved in verbal, etc.); especially specifically in grammar, "a word that asserts or declares; that part of speech of which the office is predication, and which, either alone or with various modifiers or adjuncts, combines with a subject to make a sentence" [Century Dictionary].
Partly a borrowing from French.
Etymons:Latinverbalis, Frenchverbal.
Earliest known use
Middle English
The earliest known use of the word verbal is in the Middle English period (1150—1500).
OED's earliest evidence for verbal is from before 1425, in Guy de Chauliac's Grande Chirurgie.
Nearby entries
- veratrize, v.1891–
- veratrized, adj.1874–
- veratroidea, n.1874–
- veratroidine, n.1891–
- veratrol, n.1868–
- veratrum, n.1577–
- veratrum-resin, n.1868–
- verb, n.a1398–
- verb, v.1900–
- verbage, n.1742–
- verbal, adj.
& n.?a1425–
- verbal, v.1920–
- verbal adjective, n.1649–
- verbal conditioning, n.1926–
- verbal critic, n.1656–
- verbal criticism, n.1656–
- verbal diarrhoea | verbal diarrhea, n.1808–
- verbalism, n.1787–
- verbalist, n.
& adj.1606–
- verbalistic, adj.1879–
- verbality, n.1610–
- verbalizable, adj.1933–
verbaladjective & noun
verbal is of multiple origins.
Origin and history of verbal
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verbal(adj.)
early 15c., "dealing with words, concerned with words only" (especially in contrast to things or realities), from Old French verbal (14c.) and directly from Late Latin verbalis "consisting of words, relating to verbs," from Latin verbum "word" (see verb).
As "of, pertaining to, or consisting of words," by 1520s; also "of or pertaining to a verb." By 1590s as "expressed in spoken words," 1610s as "literal, word-for-word." Related: Verbally; verbality.
Verbal conditioning is recorded from 1954.
& n.?a1425–
See ‘Meaning & use’ for definitions, usage, and quotation evidence.
This word is used in Australian English and British English.
About 0.07occurrences per million words in modern written English
| 1920 | 0.042 |
| 1930 | 0.048 |
| 1940 | 0.054 |
| 1950 | 0.059 |
| 1960 | 0.064 |
| 1970 | 0.068 |
| 1980 | 0.071 |
| 1990 | 0.074 |
| 2000 | 0.074 |
| 2010 | 0.071 |
verbal is formed within English, by conversion.
Etymons:verbaladj., verbaln.
The earliest known use of the verb verbal is in the 1920s.
OED's earliest evidence for verbal is from 1920, in the writing of N.
L. Pinder.
It is also recorded as an adjective from the Middle English period (1150—1500).
Nearby entries
- veratrized, adj.1874–
- veratroidea, n.1874–
- veratroidine, n.1891–
- veratrol, n.1868–
- veratrum, n.1577–
- veratrum-resin, n.1868–
- verb, n.a1398–
- verb, v.1900–
- verbage, n.1742–
- verbal, adj.
Related: Non-verbally.
adapted from books.google.com/ngrams/ with a 7-year moving average; ngrams are probably unreliable.
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Dictionary entries near verbal
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verbalverb
There are five meanings listed in OED's entry for the verb verbal.
& adj.1606–
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Partly a borrowing from Latin. It is from Old French verbe "word; word of God; saying; part of speech that expresses action or being" (12c.) and directly from Latin verbum "verb," originally "a word."This is reconstructed to be from PIE root *were- (3) "to speak," source also of Avestan urvata- "command;" Sanskrit vrata- "command, vow;" Greek rhētōr "public speaker," rhetra "agreement, covenant," eirein "to speak, say;" Hittite weriga- "call, summon;" Lithuanian vardas "name;" Gothic waurd, Old English word "word."
also nonverbal, "not using words," by 1809, from non- + verbal.