Timeline for Origin of "versal"?
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| Nov 24, 2010 at 19:00 | comment | added | Michael Hardy | ....and another is back formed from "versus". From such an expression as "Team A versus Team B" one derives things like "Team A will verse Team B". | |
| Nov 24, 2010 at 18:48 | comment | added | José Figueroa-O'Farrill | The verb "to verse" already exists, of course. It has several different meanings, one of them back-formed from "versed" (as in "well versed") according to the 1989 edition of the OED. | |
| Nov 24, 2010 at 18:44 | comment | added | Michael Hardy | And just as the noun "denial" comes from the verb "deny", and "reversal" from "reverse", and "acquittal" from "acquit", and similary for about three dozen verbs in the hodge-podge of a language that is English, we have here an opportunity to create a new back-formed verb. | |
| Nov 24, 2010 at 17:49 | answer | added | Man'ken Pis | timeline score: 5 | |
| Nov 24, 2010 at 16:57 | comment | added | Torsten Ekedahl | And yes it is widespread. (I guess if both Arnold and hard core stack people use it it must be...) | |
| Nov 24, 2010 at 16:20 | comment | added | H. Hasson | I hear that it was first used by Michael Artin. Can anyone corroborate? | |
| Nov 24, 2010 at 16:14 | comment | added | Denis Serre | Arnold uses "versal" in his book on classical mechanics, but also "miniversal", to speak of models of minimal dimension. | |
| Nov 24, 2010 at 16:11 | comment | added | Francesco Polizzi | Right. Universal without uni(queness) | |
| Nov 24, 2010 at 16:03 | comment | added | Dan Petersen | It's a pun on "universal". | |
| Nov 24, 2010 at 15:54 | history | asked | Jeff Strom | CC BY-SA 2.5 |