verve
Meaning
- (uncountable) Enthusiasm, rapture, spirit, or vigour, especially of imagination such as that which animates an artist, musician, or writer, in composing or performing.
- (obsolete, uncountable) A particular skill in writing.
Synonyms
terrific speed
Translations
Schwung
sappigheid
verve
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bríoPronounced as (IPA)
/vɜːv/
Etymology
Borrowed from French verve (“animation; caprice, whim; rapture; spirit; vigour; type of expression”), probably from Late Latin verva, a variant of Latin verba (“words; discourse; expressions; language”), the plural of verbum (“word”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *werh₁- (“to say, speak”). Doublet of verb and word.
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