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verbal

See also: vèrbal

EnglishEdit

 
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EtymologyEdit

From Old French verbal, from Late Latin verbālis (“belonging to a word”). Equivalent to verb +‎ -al.

PronunciationEdit

AdjectiveEdit

verbal (not comparable)

  1. Of or relating to words.
    Synonym: wordish
  2. Concerned with the words, rather than the substance of a text.
    Antonym: substantive
  3. Consisting of words only.
    • 1864, Henry Mayhew, German Life and Manners as Seen in Saxony at the Present:
      We subjoin an engraving […] which will give the reader a far better notion of the structure than any verbal description could convey to the mind.
    • 1861, Charles Dickens, Great Expectations:
      It was not a verbal remark, but a proceeding in dumb-show
  4. Expressly spoken rather than written; oral.
    a verbal contract
    a verbal testimony
    • 1861, Charles Dickens, Great Expectations:
      You can't have verbal communication with a man in New South Wales, you know.
    • 1944, George Orwell, “What is Fascism?”, in Tribune:
      I am not speaking of the verbal use of the term 'Fascist'. I am speaking of what I have seen in print.
  5. (grammar) Derived from, or having the nature of a verb.
    Synonym: rhematic
  6. (grammar) Used to form a verb.
  7. Capable of speech.
    Antonym: preverbal
    • 2005, Avril V. Brereton; Bruce J. Tonge, Pre-schoolers with autism, page 55:
      How do these language problems affect the behaviour of verbal children?
  8. Word for word.
    Synonyms: literal, verbatim
    a verbal translation
  9. (obsolete) Abounding with words; verbose.

SynonymsEdit

  • (of or relating to speech or words): lectic

AntonymsEdit

  • (expressly spoken or written): implied
  • (expressly stated): unsaid

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TranslationsEdit

word for word, literal, verbatim — see word for word,‎ literal,‎ verbatim
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NounEdit

verbal (countable and uncountable, plural verbals)

  1. (countable, grammar) A verb form which does not function as a predicate, or a word derived from a verb. In English, infinitives, participles and gerunds are verbals.
    Synonym: non-finite verb
  2. (countable, UK, Ireland) A spoken confession given to police.
    • 1982, New South Wales. Parliament, Parliamentary Debates, page 2496:
      They were convicted on the evidence of an agent provocateur named Richard Seary, backed up by police verbals from three police officers who gave evidence of six verbals in which the three accused were supposed to have admitted their guilt.
  3. (uncountable, UK, Ireland, colloquial) Talk; speech, especially banter or scolding.
    • 2013, Lenny McLean, The Guv'nor:
      We'd give him a bit of verbal, out would come the bouncers, chucking their weight about, and it would all end in a right tear-up.

TranslationsEdit

VerbEdit

verbal (third-person singular simple present verbals, present participle verballing, simple past and past participle verballed)

  1. (transitive, Britain, Australia) To induce into fabricating a confession.
    • 1982, John A. Andrews, Human Rights in Criminal Procedure: A Comparative Study, BRILL, →ISBN, page 128:
      "The problem of 'verballing' is unlikely to disappear, whatever the legal status of the person detained."
    • 2001, Chris Cunneen, Conflict, Politics and Crime: Aboriginal Communities and the Police, Allen & Unwin, →ISBN, page 116:
      "Condren had always claimed that he was assaulted and verballed by police over the murder he had supposedly confessed to committing."
    • 2004, Jeremy Gans & Andrew Palmer, Australian Principles of Evidence, →ISBN, Routledge Cavendish, page 504:
      "Moreover, given the risk of verballing, it is by no means apparent that it is in the interests of justice that the prosecution have the benefit of admissions that are made on occasions when recordings are impracticable."

AnagramsEdit

AragoneseEdit

AdjectiveEdit

verbal m or f (plural verbals)

  1. (grammar) verbal (relating to verbs)

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CatalanEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Late Latin verbālis.

PronunciationEdit

AdjectiveEdit

verbal (masculine and feminine plural verbals)

  1. verbal (of or relating to words)
  2. verbal (spoken rather than written)
  3. (grammar) verbal (relating to verbs)

Derived termsEdit

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Further readingEdit

FrenchEdit

EtymologyEdit

Borrowed from Late Latin verbālis. Synchronically analysable as verbe +‎ -al.

PronunciationEdit

AdjectiveEdit

verbal (feminine verbale, masculine plural verbaux, feminine plural verbales)

  1. verbal

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Further readingEdit

GermanEdit

PronunciationEdit

AdjectiveEdit

verbal (strong nominative masculine singular verbaler, not comparable)

  1. verbal
    Synonym: mündlich

DeclensionEdit

Positive forms of verbal (uncomparable)
number & gender singular plural
masculine feminine neuter
predicative er ist verbal sie ist verbal es ist verbal sie sind verbal
strong declension
(without article) 		nominative verbaler verbale verbales verbale
genitive verbalen verbaler verbalen verbaler
dative verbalem verbaler verbalem verbalen
accusative verbalen verbale verbales verbale
weak declension
(with definite article) 		nominative der verbale die verbale das verbale die verbalen
genitive des verbalen der verbalen des verbalen der verbalen
dative dem verbalen der verbalen dem verbalen den verbalen
accusative den verbalen die verbale das verbale die verbalen
mixed declension
(with indefinite article) 		nominative ein verbaler eine verbale ein verbales (keine) verbalen
genitive eines verbalen einer verbalen eines verbalen (keiner) verbalen
dative einem verbalen einer verbalen einem verbalen (keinen) verbalen
accusative einen verbalen eine verbale ein verbales (keine) verbalen

Further readingEdit

  • “verbal” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
  • “verbal” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon

IndonesianEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Dutch verbaal, from Middle French verbal, from Latin verbālis. Doublet of perbal.

PronunciationEdit

  • IPA(key): [vərˈbal]
  • Hyphenation: vêr‧bal

AdjectiveEdit

verbal or vêrbal

  1. verbal
    1. expressly spoken rather than written; oral
    2. (linguistics) pertaining to verbs

Further readingEdit

PortugueseEdit

EtymologyEdit

Learned borrowing from Late Latin verbāle.[1] By surface analysis, verbo +‎ -al.

PronunciationEdit

 

  • Rhymes: (Portugal) -al, (Brazil) -aw
  • Hyphenation: ver‧bal

AdjectiveEdit

verbal m or f (plural verbais)

  1. verbal, oral
  2. (grammar) verbal (derived from, or having the nature of a verb)

Derived termsEdit

ReferencesEdit

  1. ^ “verbal” in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa. Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2023.

RomanianEdit

EtymologyEdit

From French verbal, from Latin verbalis.

AdjectiveEdit

verbal m or n (feminine singular verbală, masculine plural verbali, feminine and neuter plural verbale)

  1. verbal

DeclensionEdit

Declension of verbal
singular plural
masculine neuter feminine masculine neuter feminine
nominative/
accusative 		indefinite verbal verbală verbali verbale
definite verbalul verbala verbalii verbalele
genitive/
dative 		indefinite verbal verbale verbali verbale
definite verbalului verbalei verbalilor verbalelor

SpanishEdit

EtymologyEdit

Borrowed from Late Latin verbālis.

PronunciationEdit

  • IPA(key): /beɾˈbal/ [beɾˈβ̞al]
  • Rhymes: -al
  • Syllabification: ver‧bal

AdjectiveEdit

verbal (plural verbales)

  1. verbal (of or relating to words)
  2. verbal (spoken rather than written)
  3. (grammar) verbal (relating to verbs)

Derived termsEdit

NounEdit

verbal m or f (plural verbales)|verbales

  1. (grammar) verbal

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Further readingEdit

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