verb
Meaning 1
to make or compose verses
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: ambitransitive
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
versify
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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/ˈvɜː(ɹ)sɪfaɪ/
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verb
Meaning 2
to tell in verse; deal with in verse form
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 3
to turn (prose) into poetry; rewrite in verse form
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
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Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 4
compose verses or put into verse
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- He versified the ancient saga
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: verse, poetize, poetise
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: write, compose, pen, indite
Narrower terms: metrify, spondaize, spondaise, elegize, elegise, sonnet
History
Etymology
From Middle English versifien, from Old French versifier, learned borrowing from Latin versificāre (“versify”), from versus (see verse) + faciō (“make”).
Across languages
Translations
28 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Arabic: نَظَمَ (naẓama) — ambitransitive: to make or compose verses
- Armenian: քերթել (kʻertʻel) — ambitransitive: to make or compose verses
- Bulgarian: пиша стихове (piša stihove) — ambitransitive: to make or compose verses
- Czech: veršovat — ambitransitive: to make or compose verses
- Georgian: ლექსების წერა (leksebis c̣era) — ambitransitive: to make or compose verses
- Middle English: versifien — ambitransitive: to make or compose verses
- Portuguese: versar — ambitransitive: to make or compose verses
- Portuguese: versejar — ambitransitive: to make or compose verses
- Portuguese: versificar — ambitransitive: to make or compose verses
- Romanian: versifica — ambitransitive: to make or compose verses
- Ukrainian: віршува́ти (viršuváty) — ambitransitive: to make or compose verses
- Czech: zveršovat — transitive: to tell in verse; deal with in verse form
- Czech: veršovat — transitive: to tell in verse; deal with in verse form
- Czech: zbásnit — transitive: to tell in verse; deal with in verse form
- Georgian: ლექსების წერა (leksebis c̣era) — transitive: to tell in verse; deal with in verse form
- Portuguese: versar — transitive: to tell in verse; deal with in verse form
- Portuguese: versejar — transitive: to tell in verse; deal with in verse form
- Portuguese: versificar — transitive: to tell in verse; deal with in verse form
- Ukrainian: віршува́ти (viršuváty) — transitive: to tell in verse; deal with in verse form
- Czech: veršovat — transitive: to turn prose into poetry; rewrite in verse form
- Czech: zveršovat — transitive: to turn prose into poetry; rewrite in verse form
- Czech: zbásnit — transitive: to turn prose into poetry; rewrite in verse form
- Georgian: გალექსვა (galeksva) — transitive: to turn prose into poetry; rewrite in verse form
- German: versifizieren — transitive: to turn prose into poetry; rewrite in verse form
- Portuguese: versar — transitive: to turn prose into poetry; rewrite in verse form
- Portuguese: versejar — transitive: to turn prose into poetry; rewrite in verse form
- Portuguese: versificar — transitive: to turn prose into poetry; rewrite in verse form
- Swedish: versifiera — transitive: to turn prose into poetry; rewrite in verse form