verbo-, verb-, verbi- +
(Latin: word)
Verba volant, scripta manent.
Spoken words fly away, written words remain.
interverbal
Placed between words.
intraverbal
Within a word.
ipsissima verba
1. The very words; verbatim.
2. The precise words used by a writer or speaker.
macroverbumsciolist
1. Someone who is ignorant of large words.
2. A person who pretends to know a word then secretly goes to a dictionary to find out what it means.
nonverbal
1. Not employing or including words; unskilful in the use of words.
2. Not employing or including a verb; not a form of a verb.
3. Denoting communication without sounds or words; e.g., by signs, symbols, facial expressions, gestures, posture, body language, etc.
note verbale
Verbal note; an unsigned diplomatic note, of the nature of a memorandum, which is written in the third person.
novissima verba
Final words.
A Latin reference to a person's last living utterance.
novoverbifaction
A passion for combining Latin and Greek roots and affixes in new ways.
omniverbivorous
A humorous word meaning, capable of swallowing all words.
pro-verb
A word that can substitute for a verb; its function is similar to that of a pronoun. In the following sentence, the word do acts as a pro-verb: Our neighbors never mow their lawn, but we do.
proverb
1. A short, popular saying, sometimes expressing wisdom. It is also called an adage, maxim, axiom, aphorism, apothegm, or epigram.
2. A short pithy saying in common and recognized use; a concise sentence, often metaphorical or alliterative in form, which is held to express some truth ascertained by experience or observation and familiar to all; an adage.
proverbial
1. Resembling, characteristic of, or of the nature of a proverb.
2. Expressed in a proverb or proverbs; a reference to something that has been the subject of a proverb.
proverbialism
proverbialist
Someone who originates, uses, or records proverbial sayings.
proverbially
Related "word, words" units:
etym-;
legi-;
lexico-;
locu-;
logo-;
onomato-;
-onym.