vertとは

意味・読み方・使い方

語源 1

From Middle English vert, borrowed from Old French vert, from Vulgar Latin virdis, syncopated from Classical Latin viridis. Doublet of virid, which was borrowed directly from Latin.

名詞

vert (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 verts)

1. (heraldry) A green colour, now only in heraldry; represented in engraving by diagonal parallel lines 45 degrees counter-clockwise.

   vert:  

2. (archaic) Green undergrowth or other vegetation growing in a forest, as a potential cover for deer.
3. (archaic) The right to fell trees or cut shrubs in a forest.
   • 1819, Walter Scott, Ivanhoe:

     “I understand thee,” said the King, “and the Holy Clerk shall have a grant of vert and venison in my woods of Warncliffe.”

参考

• vt. in heraldic contexts.

形容詞

vert (comparative more vert, superlative most vert)

1. (heraldry) In blazon, of the colour green.

関連する語

• verdant

語源 2

Abbreviation of vertical.

名詞

vert (複数形 verts)

1. (informal) In sport, a type of bicycle stunt competition.
2. A vertical surface used by skateboarders or skiers.

語源 3

Abbreviation of vertebrate.

名詞

vert (複数形 verts)

1. (biology, informal) vertebrate

参考

• Appendix:Colors

語源 4

From Latin vertere

1. Turn.

参照

• Douglas Harper (2001–2022), “vert”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.

アナグラム

• Trev, Tver, trev