verboso

Forms

verboso (feminine verbosa, masculine plural verbosos, feminine plural verbosas)^[1]

Etymology

It is borrowed from Latin verbōsus (“full of words, wordy”).^[2][1][3] Corominas treats it under verbo.^[4] The Latin adjective is formed from verbum (“word”) with the suffix -ōsus.^[5][6] Moliner derives the Spanish adjective directly from the Spanish noun.^[7]

Related words are Italian verboso, French verbeux and the English word verbose.^[3]

The Latin noun goes back to *werþo-, and de Vaan derives it from Proto-Indo-European *werh₁-dʰh₁-o- (“making a statement”); it is related to word and wort.^[6]

Earliest recorded meaning

Corominas and the Breve diccionario date the word 1584.^[4][8] The Old Spanish Textual Archive has one earlier occurrence, in a translation of the Hebrew Bible (Isaiah to Daniel) whose manuscript dates from between about 1426 and 1458.^[9]

Semantic evolution

Autoridades defines it as abounding in words.^[10] Terreros adds demasiado verboso, of someone who talks too much and without substance.^[11] Domínguez records both “wordy” and “talkative”.^[12] The noun verbosidad is dated about 1640.^[4][8] Moliner and Vox describe a person inclined to use too many words.^[7][13]

Timeline

• c. 1426–1458 – one occurrence in a manuscript of a Spanish translation of the Hebrew Bible.^[9]
• 1584 – the date Corominas gives.^[4][8]
• c. 1640 – the noun verbosidad.^[8]
• 1739 – Autoridades enters verboso.^[10]
• 1791 – first record in the Americas, in Lima.^[14]
• 1884 – the Academy gives the etymology from Latin verbosus and verbum.^[15]

Meanings

Adjective

1. Using many words; wordy, verbose: un discurso verboso.^[2][1][7]

Word family

• verbosidad

Related words

• verbo
• Latin verbōsus

References

1. ^ a b c d Wiktionary, the free dictionary, https://en.wiktionary.org
2. ^ a b Real Academia Española; Asociación de Academias de la Lengua Española (2014–), Diccionario de la lengua española, 23rd ed., online version 23.8, https://dle.rae.es, p. s.v. verboso
3. ^ a b Segura Munguía, Santiago (2001), Nuevo diccionario etimológico latín-español y de las voces derivadas, Bilbao: Universidad de Deusto, p. 829
4. ^ a b c d Corominas, Joan; Pascual, José A. (1980–1991), Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico, 6 vols., Madrid: Gredos, p. 5, 780
5. ^ Glare, P. G. W., ed. (2012), Oxford Latin Dictionary, 2nd ed., Oxford: Oxford University Press
6. ^ a b de Vaan, Michiel (2008), Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages, Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series 7, Leiden; Boston: Brill
7. ^ a b c Moliner, María (2007), Diccionario de uso del español, 3rd ed., Madrid: Gredos, p. s.v. verboso
8. ^ a b c d Corominas, Joan (1973), Breve diccionario etimológico de la lengua castellana, 3rd ed., Madrid: Gredos, p. s.v. verbo
9. ^ a b Hispanic Seminary of Medieval Studies (2026), Old Spanish Textual Archive (OSTA): semi-paleographic transcriptions of Old Spanish texts, ed. Francisco Gago Jover et al., https://www.hispanicseminary.org, p. s.v. verboso
10. ^ a b Real Academia Española (1726–1739), Diccionario de la lengua castellana (Diccionario de Autoridades), 6 vols., Madrid: Francisco del Hierro, p. 6, 458
11. ^ Terreros y Pando, Esteban de (1786–1793), Diccionario castellano con las voces de ciencias y artes y sus correspondientes de las tres lenguas francesa, latina e italiana, 4 vols., Madrid: Viuda de Ibarra, p. 3, 779
12. ^ Domínguez, Ramón Joaquín (1846–1847), Diccionario nacional o gran diccionario clásico de la lengua española, 2 vols., Madrid: Establecimiento Léxico-Tipográfico de R. J. Domínguez, p. 2, 1719
13. ^ Battaner Arias, Paz (dir.) (2017), Diccionario general de la lengua española VOX, Barcelona: Larousse Editorial, p. s.v. verboso
14. ^ Boyd-Bowman, Peter (2003), Léxico hispanoamericano 1493–1993, ed. Ray Harris-Northall and John J. Nitti, New York: Hispanic Seminary of Medieval Studies, p. s.v. verboso
15. ^ Real Academia Española (1884), Diccionario de la lengua castellana, 12th ed., Madrid: Imprenta de D. Gregorio Hernando (the first Academy edition with etymologies), p. 1081