verbo-, verb-, verbi- +
(Latin: word)
Verba volant, scripta manent.
Spoken words fly away, written words remain.
verbicide, verbicidal
1. The deliberate distortion of the sense of a word (as in punning).
2. May also refer to a person who distorts the sense of a word.
3. The killing of words; such as, a liar, book-burner, or someone who misuses words.
4. One who mutilates or destroys a word.
5. The act of destroying the sense or value of a word; the perversion of a word from its proper meaning.
6. Perversion of a word, or one who perverts a word; literally, killing a word.
verbiculturist
Someone who coins words.
verbid
A word, as an infinitive, gerund or participle, which has some verbal characteristics but lacks the power of forming sentences.
verbify, verbified, verbifying
To convert (a noun, etc.) into a verb.
verbigerate
1. To repeat the same word, phrase, or sentence over and over again.
2. To go on repeating the same word or phrase in a meaningless fashion, as a symptom of mental disease.
verbigeration
1. The habit of frequently repeating favorite words or expressions.
2. The obsessive repetition of meaningless words and phrases.
3. In psychiatry, a manifestation of stereotypy, consisting of the morbid repetition of words, phrases, or sentences; also called
cataphasia or
autoecholalia.
A patient with the catatonic form of schizophrenia kept repeating “muscle, muscle, muscle,” in reply to all forms of questioning.
verbi gratia; v.g.
As for example.
verbing
Using words as verbs; such as, nouns or adjectives.
Twisting nouns into verbs; such as, efforting, prioritize, clubbing, (nightclub cruising), gifted, elbowing, bottling, braking, bicycling, silencing, impacting, and incentivize.
verbochromia
A type of synesthesia in which certain words evoke a sensation of color.
verbolater
Someone who worships words.
verbolatry
The worship of words or an abnormal fondness for the excessive use of words either in writing or speaking.
verbomania
1. A reference to either excessively rapid (pressured) speech or to an excessive amount of speech.
2. An abnormal talkativeness; a psychotic flow of speech.
verbomania, verbomaniac
A compulsion for excessive use of words and for talking very fast; a psychotic flow of speech.
verbomaniac
One who is inordinately interested in words.
verbophobia
1. Fear and dislike of words.
2. Someone who is abnormally afraid to speak or who has an excessive hatred of speaking.
Related "word, words" units:
etym-;
legi-;
lexico-;
locu-;
logo-;
onomato-;
-onym.