verdura

See also: Verdura and verdură

Asturian

Etymology

verde +‎ -ura.

Noun

verdura f (plural verdures)

1. vegetable
2. green, greenness

Catalan

Etymology

From verd +‎ -ura or Vulgar Latin *virdūra.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central) [bərˈdu.ɾə]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [vərˈdu.ɾə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [veɾˈðu.ɾa]

• Audio (Catalonia):

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• Rhymes: -uɾa

Noun

verdura f (plural verdures)

1. vegetable

Derived terms

• verdulaire
• verdurer

Further reading

• “verdura” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “verdura”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “verdura” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “verdura” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Galician

Praza da Verdura, Pontevedra, ancient place of a greens market

Etymology

Attested since circa 1300. From verde (“green”) +‎ -ura or from Late Latin *virdura.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [beɾˈðuɾɐ]

Noun

verdura f (plural verduras)

1. greenness; greenery; verdure

   Synonym: verdor

   • c. 1300, R. Martínez López, editor, General Estoria. Versión gallega del siglo XIV, Oviedo: Archivum, page 191:

     Et diz Jeronymo que ẽno tẽpo do emperador Teodosio que verde era ajnda esta aruore, et despoys que se secou, et pero que perdera a verdura, que bõo era o fuste del pera moytas cousas de [meeziñas].

     And Jerome says that in times of emperor Theodosius this tree was still green, and that it later dried up, and that even if it had lost its verdure, its wood was good for many medicinal things

2. (countable or uncountable) greens; vegetable, especially a leafy vegetable

   Synonym: verza

References

• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “erdura”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
• “verdura” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “verdura” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “verdura” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Italian

Etymology

From verde (“green”) +‎ -ura (“noun-forming suffix”), or from Vulgar Latin *virdūra.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /verˈdu.ra/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -ura
• Hyphenation: ver‧dù‧ra

Noun

verdura f (plural verdure)

1. vegetable(s)

Old Occitan

Etymology

vert +‎ -ura.

Noun

verdura f (oblique plural verduras, nominative singular verdura, nominative plural verduras)

1. greenery; plant life

References

• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “viridis”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volumes 14: U–Z, page 509

Portuguese

Etymology

From verde (“green”) +‎ -ura (“-ness”), with the first element from Old Galician-Portuguese verde, from Latin viridis (“green”). Alternately, from Vulgar Latin *virdūra.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /veʁˈdu.ɾɐ/ [veɦˈdu.ɾɐ]

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /veʁˈdu.ɾɐ/ [veɦˈdu.ɾɐ]
  • (São Paulo) IPA^(key): /veɾˈdu.ɾɐ/
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /veʁˈdu.ɾɐ/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /veɻˈdu.ɾa/

 

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /vɨɾˈdu.ɾɐ/ [vɨɾˈðu.ɾɐ]

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /vɨɾˈdu.ɾɐ/ [vɨɾˈðu.ɾɐ]
  • (Northern Portugal) IPA^(key): /bɨɾˈdu.ɾɐ/ [bɨɾˈðu.ɾɐ]

• Rhymes: -uɾɐ
• Hyphenation: ver‧du‧ra

Noun

verdura f (plural verduras)

1. (uncountable) greenness (state or quality of being green)
2. (uncountable) unripeness (state or quality of being unripe)

   Antonym: madureza

3. (in the plural) vegetable (a plant raised for some edible part of it, excluding any plant considered to be a fruit, grain, or spice in the culinary sense)

   Synonyms: hortaliça, legume, vegetal

Synonyms

• (greenness): verdor, viridez (poetic)

Related terms

• verde
• verdureiro

Spanish

Etymology

Inherited from Old Spanish verdura, from verde (“green”) + -ura (noun-forming suffix). Alternately, from Vulgar Latin *virdūra.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /beɾˈduɾa/ [beɾˈð̞u.ɾa]

• Audio (Colombia):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -uɾa
• Syllabification: ver‧du‧ra

Noun

verdura f (plural verduras)

1. vegetable
2. greenness, verdancy

   Synonym: verdor

Related terms

• verde
• verdulero

 

Further reading

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