verset

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English

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Etymology

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From Middle English verset, from Old French verset; equivalent to verse +‎ -et.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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verset (plural versets)

  1. (music) A very short organ interlude or prelude.
  2. (obsolete) A verse.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for verset”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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French

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Etymology

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Inherited from Old French verset. By surface analysis, vers +‎ -et.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /vɛʁ.sɛ/
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Noun

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verset m (plural versets)

  1. diminutive of vers
  2. verse (of religious text)

Further reading

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Anagrams

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Hungarian

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Etymology

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vers +‎ -et

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): [ˈvɛrʃɛt]
  • Hyphenation: ver‧set

Noun

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verset

  1. accusative singular of vers

Latin

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Verb

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verset

  1. third-person singular present active subjunctive of versō

Middle English

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Old French verset; equivalent to vers +‎ -et.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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verset (plural versetis)

  1. (rare) A short Biblical verse used as part of the liturgy.

Descendants

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  • English: verset

References

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Norwegian Bokmål

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Noun

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verset n

  1. definite singular of vers

Norwegian Nynorsk

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Noun

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verset n

  1. definite singular of vers

Piedmontese

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Noun

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verset m (plural verset)

  1. This term needs a translation to English. Please help out and add a translation, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.

Romanian

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Etymology

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Borrowed from French verset.

Noun

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verset n (plural versete)

  1. verse

Declension

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