verbero

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈwɛr.bɛ.roː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈvɛr.be.ro]

From verber (“whip, rod”) +‎ -ō (suffix forming first conjugation verbs).

verberō (present infinitive verberāre, perfect active verberāvī, supine verberātum); first conjugation

1. to lash, beat, strike

   Synonyms: tangō, percutiō, pellō, feriō, mulcō, discutiō, pulsō, īcō, accīdō, affligō, impingō, percellō

2. (strictly) to whip, scourge, flog

   Synonym: flagellō

   Coordinate term: vāpulō

¹The present passive infinitive in -ier is a rare poetic form which is attested.

From verber (“whip, rod”) +‎ -ō (suffix forming third declension masculine agent nouns).

For semantic parallels, compare loanword mastīgia related to μάστιξ (mástix, “whip”). Also compare Russian бич (bič) (akin to бить (bitʹ)).

verberō m (genitive verberōnis); third declension

1. (derogatory) scoundrel, rascal (worthy of being whipped)

   Synonyms: furcifer, mastīgia

   ain' vērō verberō? ― is that so rascal?

Third-declension noun.

• “verbero”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “verbero”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “verbero”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "verbero", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “verbero”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to rain missiles on a town, bombard it: oppidum tormentis verberare
    
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “verberate”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.

verbero

1. first-person singular present indicative of verberar