verdura

From verd +‎ -ura or Vulgar Latin *virdūra.

• IPA^(key): /beɾˈduɾa/
• Syllabification: ver‧du‧ra
• Rhymes: -uɾa

verdura f (plural verduras)

1. vegetable

• Bal Palazios, Santiago (2002) “verdura”, in Dizionario breu de a luenga aragonesa, Zaragoza, →ISBN

verde +‎ -ura.

verdura f (plural verdures)

1. vegetable
2. green, greenness

From verd +‎ -ura or Vulgar Latin *virdūra.

• IPA^(key): (Central) [bərˈdu.ɾə]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [vərˈdu.ɾə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [veɾˈðu.ɾa]

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• Rhymes: -uɾa
• Hyphenation: ver‧du‧ra

verdura f (plural verdures)

1. vegetable

   Synonym: hortalissa

• “verdura”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “verdura”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025.
• “verdura” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “verdura” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Attested since circa 1300. From verde (“green”) +‎ -ura or from Late Latin *virdura.

• IPA^(key): /beɾˈduɾa/ [beɾˈð̞u.ɾɐ]
• Rhymes: -uɾa
• Hyphenation: ver‧du‧ra

verdura f (plural verduras)

1. greenness; greenery; verdure

   Synonym: verdor

   • c. 1300, R. Martínez López, editor, General Estoria. Versión gallega del siglo XIV, Oviedo: Archivum, page 191:

     Et diz Jeronymo que ẽno tẽpo do emperador Teodosio que verde era ajnda esta aruore, et despoys que se secou, et pero que perdera a verdura, que bõo era o fuste del pera moytas cousas de [meeziñas].

     And Jerome says that in times of emperor Theodosius this tree was still green, and that it later dried up, and that even if it had lost its verdure, its wood was good for many medicinal things

2. (countable or uncountable) greens; vegetable, especially a leafy vegetable

   Synonym: verza

• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “erdura”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “verdura”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “verdura”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “verdura”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

From verde (“green”) +‎ -ura (“noun-forming suffix”), or from Vulgar Latin *virdūra.

• IPA^(key): /verˈdu.ra/

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• Rhymes: -ura
• Hyphenation: ver‧dù‧ra

verdura f (plural verdure)

1. vegetable(s)

• verzura

• vegetale

vert +‎ -ura.

verdura f (oblique plural verduras, nominative singular verdura, nominative plural verduras)

1. greenery; plant life

• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “viridis”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volume 14: U–Z, page 509

From verde (“green”) +‎ -ura (“-ness”), with the first element from Old Galician-Portuguese verde, from Latin viridis (“green”). Alternately, from Vulgar Latin *virdūra.

• Rhymes: -uɾɐ
• Hyphenation: ver‧du‧ra

verdura f (plural verduras)

1. (uncountable) greenness (state or quality of being green)
2. (uncountable) unripeness (state or quality of being unripe)

   Antonym: madureza

3. (in the plural) vegetable (a plant raised for some edible part of it, excluding any plant considered to be a fruit, grain, or spice in the culinary sense)

   Synonyms: hortaliça, legume, vegetal

• (greenness): verdor, viridez (poetic)

• verde
• verdureiro

Inherited from Old Spanish verdura, from verde (“green”) + -ura (noun-forming suffix). Alternately, from Vulgar Latin *virdūra.

• IPA^(key): /beɾˈduɾa/ [beɾˈð̞u.ɾa]

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• Rhymes: -uɾa
• Syllabification: ver‧du‧ra

verdura f (plural verduras)

1. vegetable

   Synonyms: hortaliza, vegetal

2. greenness, verdancy

   Synonym: verdor

• “verdura”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024