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uerso

peak

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Where it lives

Quomodo Trinitas Unus Deus Ac Non Tres Dii (De Trinitate) 1 · 3.44/10k
Ab urbe condita, books 6-10 - 7 1 · 0.76/10k
Ab urbe condita, books 21-25 - 23 1 · 0.68/10k
Ab urbe condita, books 1-5 - 4 1 · 0.6/10k
De consolatione philosophiae 1 · 0.41/10k
Facta et Dicta Memorabilia 2 · 0.25/10k
Controversiae 1 · 0.15/10k
Punica 1 · 0.13/10k

What it meant

*uerso- — de Vaan

*uerso- 'peak', Skt. varsman- [n.] 'height, top' < *uers-mn-, varsistha- 'highest, most excellent'; Lith. virsus [m.], Latv. virsus, OCS vrweb, Ru, verx, loc.sg. verxu 'top, upper part' < *ufs-u-; OE wearr csilP. Uncertain: Go. wairsiza, OHG wirsiro 'worse' < *uersizon-. The suffix -ucus can be denominal to a stem in *-w-, but it is also found after other types of stems. The original ablaut grade of the root cannot … — [de Vaan, s.v. *uerso-, p. 680]

In the wild

uersas Livy, Ab urbe condita, books 21-25 - 23 p16
uersari Boethius, Quomodo Trinitas Unus Deus Ac Non Tres Dii (De Trinitate) 2
uersari Valerius Maximus, Facta et Dicta Memorabilia 7.3e.3
uersare Silius Italicus, Punica 8.260
uersas Boethius, De consolatione philosophiae 1.P5
uersari Seneca the Elder, Controversiae 10.4.16

6 of 9 attestations shown.

Where it came from

de Vaan, Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Brill 2008) Treated in de Vaan, Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Brill 2008) s.v. uerso (scan pp. 680-681; entry #1955). Root candidates: *uerso-, *uersizon-.

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