English

Proper noun

Verona

1. A city straddling the river Adige in Veneto, northern Italy, and the capital city of the province of the same name.
   • 1591–5, William Shakespeare, The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet (1623), Prologue:

     Two households, both alike in dignity, // In fair Verona, where we lay our scene, // From ancient grudge break to new mutiny, // Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean.

2. A province in the Veneto region of northern Italy.
3. A village in Illinois.
4. A census-designated place in Kentucky.
5. A city in Mississippi.
6. A city/town in Missouri.
7. A township in New Jersey.
8. A town in New York.
9. A city/village in North Dakota.
10. A village in Ohio.
11. A borough in Pennsylvania.
12. A city and town in Wisconsin.
13. A female given name

Derived terms

Related terms

• Veronese

Translations

Catalan

Proper noun

Verona f

1. Verona

German

Etymology

Contraction of Veronika.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /veˈʁoːna/

Proper noun

Verona f ‎(genitive Verona)

1. A female given name

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /veˈroːna/

Proper noun

Verona f

1. Verona (city)
2. Verona (province)

Derived terms

• veronese

Descendants

• English: Verona

Anagrams

• averno, Averno

Latin

Pronunciation

Vērōna (nom., voc.)

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /weːˈroː.na/

Vērōnā (abl.)

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /weːˈroː.naː/

Proper noun

Vērōna f ‎(genitive Vērōnae); first declension

1. Verona (a city in Transpadane Gaul, the birthplace of the poet Catullus and of Pliny the Elder)
   • 27–25 BC, Titus Livius Patavinus, Ab Urbe Condita Libri, book V, chapter xxxv:

     Alia subinde manus Cenomanorum Etitovio duce vestigia priorum secuta eodem saltu favente Belloveso cum transcendisset Alpes, ubi nunc Brixia ac Verona urbes sunt locos tenuere.

     Presently another band, consisting of Cenomani led by Etitovius, followed in the tracks of the earlier emigrants; and having, with the approval of Bellovesus, crossed the Alps by the same pass, established themselves where the cities of Brixia and Verona are-now. ― translation from: Benjamin Oliver Foster, The History of Early Rome (1919), pages 119–121

Declension

First declension, with locative.

Derived terms

• Vērōnēnsis
• Vērōnēnsēs

References

• Verona in William Smith., editor (1854, 1857) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
• Vērōna in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “Verona”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.

Portuguese

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ve.ˈɾo.nɐ/

Proper noun

Verona f

1. Verona (a city and province of Veneto, Italy)

Finnish

Noun

verona

1. Essive singular form of vero.