véarsa

Borrowed from English verse, ultimately from Latin versus (“a line in writing, and in poetry a verse; (originally) row, furrow”), from vertō (“I turn around”).

véarsa m (genitive singular véarsa, nominative plural véarsaí)

1. verse; stanza; (biblical) verse

• véarsaíocht f (“versification; verse”)

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “véarsa”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN