vert

Signification (Anglais)

Noun

1. A green colour, now only in heraldry; represented in engraving by diagonal parallel lines 45 degrees counter-clockwise.
2. Green undergrowth or other vegetation growing in a forest, as a potential cover for deer.
3. The right to fell trees or cut shrubs in a forest.

Adj

In blazon, of the colour green.

Adj

Abbreviation of vertical.

Verb

To turn.

Concepts

sinople

vert

perpendiculaire

vertical

à plomb

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/vɜːt/

Étymologie (Anglais)

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.