Where Does the Word Versing Come from?

Many people can sing the chorus to "Take Me Out to the Ball Game," but few realize there are also verses, including one that starts, "Katie Casey was baseball mad." Verse comes from the Latin word versus, which means a line of writing and is based on the Proto-Indo-European root wer, meaning to turn or bend.

How do you use versing in a sentence?

Versing: I Thought My Kid Made It Up

Smith's class versus Mr. Javier's class" leads to "Mrs. Smith's class is versing Mr. Javier's class." "Versus" sounds like a verb to them, not the preposition that it is.

Where does the word versus come from?

Versus is a preposition, with the meaning of “against,” or “in contrast to or as the alternative of.” In use in English since the 15th century, the word comes from the past participle of the Latin vertere, meaning “to turn.” Verses is either the plural form of a noun (“a line of metrical writing”) or the third-person ...