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The word adverb (a modifier of verbs, adjectives, or adverbs) is from the same root as "verb" and means "toward a word." The Latin verbum meant "word" (from spoken word) and the prefix ad- meant toward, creating the Latin word adverbium, which translates as adverb.

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