Other forms: adverbs
An adverb is a word that tells you how, when or where something happens. Add an adverb, an adverb of manner, drop the adverbs.
Not all end in -ly, since fast, well and yesterday are all adverbs. Writers are told to cut them and use stronger verbs instead, which is good advice taken much too far.
1nounadverbA word that tells you how, when or where something happens.
“My teacher circled quickly and wrote that it was an adverb, not an adjective.”
adverb is a word.
Latin adverbium is ad, to, plus verbum, a word, since it was seen as added to other words.
French
adverbe
English, today
adverb
Borrowed from French adverbe. French adverbe, from Latin adverbium, from ad- + verbum + -ium, so called because it is used to supplement other words (not specifically verbs). by surface analysis, ad- + verb.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA