versus
pronunciation
How to pronounce versus in British English:
UK [ˈvɜːsəs]
How to pronounce versus in American English:
US [ˈvɜːrsəs]
Word Origin
- versus (prep.)
- mid-15c., in legal case names, denoting action of one party against another, from Latin versus "turned toward or against," from past participle of vertere (frequentative versare) "to turn, turn back, be turned, convert, transform, translate, be changed," from PIE *wert- "to turn, wind," from root *wer- (3) "to turn, bend" (cognates: Old English -weard "toward," originally "turned toward," weorthan "to befall," wyrd "fate, destiny," literally "what befalls one;" Sanskrit vartate "turns round, rolls;" Avestan varet- "to turn;" Old Church Slavonic vrŭteti "to turn, roll," Russian vreteno "spindle, distaff;" Lithuanian ver čiu "to turn;" Greek rhatane "stirrer, ladle;" German werden, Old English weorðan "to become" (for sense, compare turn into); Welsh gwerthyd "spindle, distaff;" Old Irish frith "against").
Example
- 1. Culture versus biology is one of the biggest .
- 2. Today , an important area of research funded by the nci uses the new and emerging tools of molecular biology and genomics to try to identify molecular fingerprints of indolent versus rapidly progressive tumors identified by screening .
- 3. It is why " chindia " stands for china plus india rather than china versus india .
- 4. He fanned the kpk-police feud with his " gecko versus crocodile " analogy .
- 5. A new currency war is looming as the dollar devalues versus the world 's currencies .