nonverbally
Meaningwithout words
Common meaning: without words, by gesture or expression
- nonnot
- verba wordLewis & Short, Latin Dictionary (1879), p. 1972 · scan
- allyadverb ending: in that way
‘not’ + ‘a word’ → nonverbally
Journey through time
- Latinverbum, -ī‘a word’
- Frenchverbe
- Englishnonverbally‘without words, by gesture or expression’ · today
non- also in: nonverbalnonchalantnontrivialnonphysicalnonresident
verb also in: nonverbal
Sources & notes
Meaning: “Meaning” is the sense that emerges from the word’s roots; “Common meaning” is today’s everyday sense. Both written by us.
Pronunciation
- UK IPA: not available. Respelling: generated.
- US IPA: not available. Respelling: generated.
Origin: Built on Latin verbum ‘a word’.
Roots
- verbum, -ī Latin “a word”
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