English → Latin
“verse” in Latin
lūculentusfull of light, brilliant, bright, splendid; distinguished, excellentnumerusnumber; Roman military unit; collection, quantityvertōto turn, turn oneself, direct one's way, to turn about, turn around, revolve; to turn upside down, overturn, overthrow, membrumlimb of the body; member.; the penis (membrum virīle); a portion, divisionarticulusa point connecting various parts of the body; joint, knot, knuckle.; a limb, member, finger; a short clause; a single wopactuman agreement, bargain, pact; a means, manner, method, considerationdistichoncouplet, distich (two-line verse)tetrastichontetrastich, four-line stanza.malusunpleasant, distressing, painful, nasty, bad; unpleasant to the senses, sight, smell, taste, touch; bad, evil, wicked, mscrībōto write
The English word verse itself goes back to Latin vertō, through versus.
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
verse
line of poetry, versus, -ūs (distichon, tristichon, tetrastichon, etc., a set of two, three, four, etc., verses). Beautiful verses, versus ornati, luculenti (Cic.): very good, bad verses, versus optimi, mali: better and smoother verses, versus magis facti et mollius euntes (Hor., Sat., 1, 10, 58): to write verses, versus facere, scribere: to write excellent verses on any subject, optimis versibus de aliqua re scribere; ornatissimis atque optimis versibus de aliqua re dicere (Cic.).
Poetry, numeri (plur.): versus. To write in verse, sententias claudere numeris; verba includere versu (Cic.).
A small section, membrum: articulus.
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for verse?
- The usual Latin words for “verse” are lūculentus, numerus, vertō; also membrum, articulus, pactum. The right choice depends on the sense; see the distinctions below.
Entry from J. E. Riddle & T. K. Arnold, A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon (rev. C. Anthon, New York: Harper, 1864), digitised by Fergus J. P. Walsh, CC BY-SA 4.0; Latin markup adapted by latindictionary.co.