veredus

Latin

Etymology

From Gaulish *werēdos, from Proto-Celtic *uɸoreidos (horse) (compare Welsh gorwydd (horse)).

Pronunciation

Noun

verēdus m (genitive verēdī); second declension

  1. A fast or light breed of horse; courier's horse; hunter.

Declension

Second-declension noun.

singular plural
nominative verēdus verēdī
genitive verēdī verēdōrum
dative verēdō verēdīs
accusative verēdum verēdōs
ablative verēdō verēdīs
vocative verēde verēdī

Derived terms

Descendants

  • >? Galician: verea (or directly from Celtic)
  • >? Portuguese: breia (Trasmontano) Portuguese: vereda (or directly from Celtic)
  • >? Spanish: vereda (or directly from Celtic)
  • Byzantine Greek: βέρεδος (béredos), βέρηδος (bérēdos), βέραιδος (béraidos), βέρηδον (bérēdon), βέρεδον (béredon), βέραιδον (béraidon), βέριδον (béridon), βήριδον (bḗridon)

References

  • veredus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • veredus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • veredus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers