Verbose
/vɜːrˈboʊs/noun
Using or containing more words than necessary.
Did you know?It comes from Latin *verbosus*, from *verbum* (“word”), the same root behind *verb* — so the word for “too many words” is built from the ancient root for language itself.
Etymological Timeline
Proto-Indo-European
PIE
*werdʰ-
“to speak, say”
Latin
Latin
verbum
“word, saying, speech”
Latin
Latin
verbosus
“full of words, wordy”
Late Latin
Latin
verbosus
“wordy, prolix”
Middle English
English
verbose
“wordy, using too many words”
Modern English
English
verbose
“using or containing more words than necessary”