verter

Etymology

From Latin vertere, from Proto-Italic *wertō, from Proto-Indo-European *wértti.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [beɾˈteɾ]

Verb

verter (first-person singular present verto, first-person singular preterite vertín, past participle vertido)
verter (first-person singular present verto, first-person singular preterite vertim or verti, past participle vertido, reintegrationist norm)

1. (intransitive) to leak
2. (transitive) to pour
3. (intransitive or pronominal) to spill, shed

References

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “verter”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “verter”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “verter”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• “verter”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2024
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “verter”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• “verter” in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (2014).
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “verter”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

Noun

verter m

1. indefinite plural of vert

Etymology

From Latin vertere, from Proto-Italic *wertō, from Proto-Indo-European *wértti.

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: ver‧ter

Verb

verter (first-person singular present verto, first-person singular preterite verti, past participle vertido)

1. (intransitive) to leak
2. (transitive) to pour
3. (transitive) to spill
4. (transitive) to well; to flow (to issue forth)
5. (intransitive, unaccusative) to translate, to be translated [with para ‘into another language’]

   Synonym: traduzir

   • 2014, João Magueijo, chapter 4, in Bifes Mal Passados: Passeios e outras catástrofes por terras de Sua Majestade, →ISBN:

     Uma sua variante particularmente chavascosa são as férias dos lads, isto não verte bem para português, quer dizer férias de um grupo de «rapazes», da «malta», mas muito à inglesa, em suma, uma gandulagem do piorio.

     One such particularly annoying variant is the "lad's vacation", which doesn't translate well into Portuguese, meaning a vacation of a group of "boys", of "troublemakers", but very much in the English style, in sum, the worst sort of slacking off.

Etymology

From Latin vertere, present active infinitive of Latin vertō, from Proto-Italic *wertō, from Proto-Indo-European *wértti; whence English vertex, vortex and vertigo. Cognate with French verser.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /beɾˈteɾ/ [beɾˈt̪eɾ]
• Rhymes: -eɾ
• Syllabification: ver‧ter

Verb

verter (first-person singular present vierto, first-person singular preterite vertí, past participle vertido)

1. (transitive) to pour, spill, shed

   Synonym: derramar

Further reading

• “verter”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10