Verbatim

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WOTD - 11 December 2007    

English

Adverb

Verbatim (not comparable)

  1. Word for word; in exactly the same words as were used originally.
    I have copied his speech and here it is, verbatim.
    • 1971: Denis Mahon, Studies in Seicento Art and Theory, p317
      …in several instances Mancini’s text is virtually reproduced verbatim by Bellori.120

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Adjective

Verbatim (not comparable)

  1. (of a document) Corresponding with the original word for word.
    • Date unknown: Joint Committee on Printing Congress of the United States, General Statement of Procedure for Verbatim Reporting of Proceedings in Senate Chamber, pV
    • 1917: Andreĭ Ivanovich Shingarev, Russia and Her Allies: Extract from the Verbatim Report of the Imperial Duma, IV th Session, 16 th Sitting, p3
    • 2002: Michael Quim Patton, Qualitative Research & Evaluation Methods, p381
      Ironically, verbatim note taking can interfere with listening attentively.
  2. (of a person) Able to take down a speech word for word, especially in shorthand.
    • U.S. Department of Labor's description of court reporter's job
      Some States require voice writers to pass a test and to earn State licensure. As a substitute for State licensure, the National Verbatim Reporters Association offers three national certifications to voice writers: Certified Verbatim Reporter (CVR), the Certificate of Merit (CM), and Real-Time Verbatim Reporter (RVR). Earning these certifications is sufficient to be licensed in States where the voice method of court reporting is permitted.

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Noun

Verbatim (plural Verbatims)
  1. A word-for-word report of a speech.

Thesaurus

absolutely, accurate, accurately, authentic, bona fide, candid, card-carrying, close, dead, definitely, dinkum, direct, directly, even, exact, exactly, expressly, faithful, faithfully, following the letter, genuine, good, honest, honest-to-God, in all respects, in every respect, inartificial, ipsissimis verbis, just, lawful, legitimate, lifelike, literal, literally, literatim, natural, naturalistic, original, plumb, point-blank, positively, precise, precisely, pure, real, realistic, right, rightful, rigidly, rigorously, simon-pure, simple, sincere, square, squarely, sterling, straight, strict, strictly, sure-enough, to the letter, true to life, true to nature, true to reality, unadulterated, unaffected, unassumed, unassuming, uncolored, unconcocted, uncopied, uncounterfeited, undeviatingly, undisguised, undisguising, undistorted, unerringly, unexaggerated, unfabricated, unfanciful, unfeigned, unfeigning, unfictitious, unflattering, unimagined, unimitated, uninvented, unpretended, unpretending, unqualified, unromantic, unsimulated, unspecious, unsynthetic, unvarnished, verbal, verbally, verbatim et litteratim, veridical, verisimilar, word by word, word for word, word-for-word

Etymology

Attested in English since 1481[1] (therefore considered a Middle English derivation by some[2]): from Medieval Latin verbātim[1][2][3][4], from Latin verb(um)[1][2][3][4] + -ātim, adverbial suffix[4].

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Translations

Adverb

word for word

Adjective

of a document: word for word
of a person: skilled in faithful transcription

Noun

word-for-word report

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 The Concise Oxford English Dictionary [Eleventh Edition]
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1·1)

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Latin

Adverb

verbātim (not comparable)
  1. verbatim, word for word

Etymology

From verbum + -ātim, adverbial suffix.

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /werˈbaː.tim/

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