verbena

Borrowed from Latin verbēna (“leaves or twigs of olive, myrtle, laurel, or other sacred plants employed in religious ceremonies”), from Proto-Indo-European *werbʰ- (see also Lithuanian virbas (“twig, branch, scion, rod”)), from *werb- (“to turn, bend”). Cognate with Middle Dutch warp, Middle Low German warp, German Warf, Danish varp, Swedish varp. Doublet of vervain.

• (General American) IPA^(key): /vɝˈbinə/
• Rhymes: -iːnə

verbena (plural verbenas)

1. Verbena, a genus of herbaceous plants of which several species are extensively cultivated for the great beauty of their flowers; vervain.
   • 1918, Katherine Mansfield, Prelude (Selected Stories, Oxford World's Classics paperback 2002, 116)

     Linda pulled a piece of verbena and crumpled it, and held her hands to her mother. -

• lemon verbena
• sweet verbena
• verbenalin
• verbenalol

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verbena f (plural verbenes)

1. Alternative form of berbena

• “verbena” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Borrowed from Latin verbēna.

• IPA^(key): /ˈʋerbenɑ/, [ˈʋe̞rbe̞nɑ]
• Rhymes: -erbenɑ
• Syllabification^(key): ver‧be‧na

verbena

1. verbena, beebrush (plant of genus Verbena)
2. (in the plural) the genus Verbena

• (plant and genus): rautayrtti

Borrowed from Latin verbēna. Compare the doublet vermena. .

• IPA^(key): /verˈbɛ.na/
• Rhymes: -ɛna
• Hyphenation: ver‧bè‧na

verbena f (plural verbene)

1. verbena, vervain

• Verbenacee

From Proto-Indo-European *werbʰ- (see also Lithuanian virbas (“twig, branch, scion, rod”)), from Proto-Indo-European *werb- (“to turn, bend”). Cognate with Middle Dutch warp, Middle Low German warp, German Warf, Danish varp, Swedish varp.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /u̯erˈbeː.na/, [u̯ɛrˈbeːnä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /verˈbe.na/, [verˈbɛːnä]

verbēna f (genitive verbēnae); first declension

1. foliage, especially that of olive, myrtle etc having religious and medicinal uses

First-declension noun.

• “verbena”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “verbena”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• verbena in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
• “verbena”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “verbena”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

From Old Galician-Portuguese, from Latin verbēna.

verbena f (plural verbenas)

1. verbena (any of the herbaceous flowering plant of the genus Verbena)

From Old Spanish berbena, from Latin verbēna (see also Lithuanian virbas (“twig, branch, scion, rod”)). Cognate with Middle Dutch warp, Middle Low German warp, German Warf, Danish varp, Swedish varp.

• IPA^(key): /beɾˈbena/ [beɾˈβ̞e.na]
• Rhymes: -ena
• Syllabification: ver‧be‧na

verbena f (plural verbenas)

1. verbena (plant)
2. a night-time fair or party

• “verbena”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014