verded

English

Etymology

From Late Middle English uerd (“the colour green”) (c. 1450), later verd (“green, verdancy”) (1603).[1]

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /ˈvɜːdɪd/

Adjective

verded (not comparable)

  1. (archaic) Verdant; made green.[1]
    The verded fields stretched as far as the eye could see.
    • 1618, William Lithgow, Poetical Remains, page 28:
      Thy verded face, contaminates thy proouer, And with false showes [etc.] … Thou seem'st without more brighter than the golde Ten thousand vales of glistring showes decore thee [etc.]
    • 1913, J. H. Hendren, “"Personal observations of Pellagra in Eastern Kentucky"”, in Kentucky Medical Journal, page 369:
      A hundred little towns and villages dotted here and there besprinkling the verded slopes like jewels to an emerald isle; […]

Usage notes

This term is rarely used in modern English, having been largely replaced by "verdant" or simply "green".

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Verded ppl. adj.". Dictionary of the Scots Language. 2004. Scottish Language Dictionaries Ltd. Accessed 13 Jan 2025 <http://www.dsl.ac.uk/entry/dost/verded>
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