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verve.

eloquence

5 characters2 syllables approx.Français language

Meaning & usage

noun/vɛʁv/
  1. eloquence

    feminine
  2. verve, brio

    feminine
Where this word comes from

Probably from Late Latin verva, a variant of Latin verba (“words; discourse; expressions; language”), the plural of verbum (“word”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *wérdʰom (“that which is said; utterance, word”), from the verb *wérdʰeti (“to speak, say”), derived from the root *werh₁- + *-dʰeti. Doublet of verbe.

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