Etymology

verderer

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Today it means: An official in charge of a royal forest; in modern times, still extant in the New Forest and the Forest of Dean Full definition →

French verdier ← Late Latin viridarius ← Latin viridis
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  1. Latin · derived fromviridis“green”
  2. Late Latin · derived fromviridarius
  3. French · derived fromverdier
  4. English todayverderer

From French verdier, from Late Latin viridarius, from Latin viridis (“green”).

Words from the same roots

Frenchverdier all →

Verdier

Latinviridis all →

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Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.