Verona

From the Italian Verona and the Latin Vērōna.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /vɪˈɹəʊnə/

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Verona

1. A city straddling the river Adige in Veneto, northern Italy, and the capital city of the province of the same name.
   • c. 1591–1595 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Romeo and Ivliet”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act PROLOGUE, (please specify the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals)]:

     Two households, both alike in dignity, // In fair Verona, where we lay our scene, // From ancient grudge break to new mutiny, // Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean.

2. A province of Veneto, in northern Italy.
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13. A habitational surname from Italian.
14. A female given name.

• Veronese

• Verona (city) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Verona (province) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• Varone, Verano, avenor

• (Balearic) IPA^(key): /vəˈɾo.nə/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /bəˈɾo.nə/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /veˈɾo.na/

Verona f

1. Verona (a city and province of Italy)

• veronès

Contraction of Veronika.

• IPA^(key): /veˈʁoːna/

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Verona f

1. a female given name

From Latin Vērōna.

• IPA^(key): /veˈro.na/

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• Rhymes: -ona
• Hyphenation: Ve‧ró‧na

Verona f

1. A city and province of Veneto, Italy

• veronese

• → English: Verona

• Verona on the Italian Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^it

• Averno, Verano, averno, navero, naverò, novera, vanerò

Celtic name *Vernomago, from Proto-Celtic *wernā (“alder”) + *magos (“field”).

Vērōna (nom., voc.)

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /u̯eːˈroː.na/, [u̯eːˈroːnä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /veˈro.na/, [veˈrɔːnä]

Vērōnā (abl.)

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /u̯eːˈroː.naː/, [u̯eːˈroːnäː]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /veˈro.na/, [veˈrɔːnä]

Vērōna f sg (genitive Vērōnae); first declension

1. Verona (a city in Transpadane Gaul, the birthplace of the poet Catullus and of Pliny the Elder)
   • 27–25 BC, Titus Livius Patavinus, Ab Urbe Condita Libri, book V, chapter xxxv:

     Alia subinde manus Cenomanorum Etitovio duce vestigia priorum secuta eodem saltu favente Belloveso cum transcendisset Alpes, ubi nunc Brixia ac Verona urbes sunt locos tenuere.

     Presently another band, consisting of Cenomani led by Etitovius, followed in the tracks of the earlier emigrants; and having, with the approval of Bellovesus, crossed the Alps by the same pass, established themselves where the cities of Brixia and Verona are-now. ― translation from: Benjamin Oliver Foster, The History of Early Rome (1919), pages 119–121

2. (Medieval Latin) Bonn (a city on the Rhine in modern-day Germany)

   Synonyms: Bonna, Castra Bonnensia

First-declension noun, with locative, singular only.

• Vērōnēnsis
• Vērōnēnsēs

• “Verona”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
• “Vērōna”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Verona in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
• John Everett-Heath (2017): The Concise Dictionary of World Place Names

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• Hyphenation: Ve‧ro‧na

Verona f

1. Verona (a city and province of Veneto, Italy)

• veronense
• veronês

• IPA^(key): /beˈɾona/ [beˈɾo.na]
• Rhymes: -ona
• Syllabification: Ve‧ro‧na

Verona f

1. Verona (a city and province of Italy)