versar

• IPA^(key): (Central) [bərˈsa]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [vərˈsa]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [veɾˈsaɾ]

versar (first-person singular present verso, first-person singular preterite versí, past participle versat); root stress: (Central) /ɛ/; (Valencia) /e/; (Balearic) /ə/

1. to address

• “versar”, 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
• “versar”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025.
• “versar” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “versar” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Borrowed from Latin versāre. Doublet of inherited vessar.

• Hyphenation: ver‧sar

versar (first-person singular present verso, first-person singular preterite versei, past participle versado)

1. to address (to discuss a given subject)

   Synonyms: tratar de, abordar, examinar

2. to transfer something from one container to another
3. to versify (to make or compose verses)

   Synonym: versejar

4. to versify (to turn (prose) into poetry)

• reversar
• revessar
• verso

• “versar” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913

Borrowed from Latin versāre.

• IPA^(key): /beɾˈsaɾ/ [beɾˈsaɾ]
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: ver‧sar

versar (first-person singular present verso, first-person singular preterite versé, past participle versado)

1. (intransitive) to deal with, concern, address

   Synonym: tratar con

2. (intransitive) to turn (around)

• “versar”, 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