Verbatim means repeated word for word, exactly as said. Quote verbatim, a verbatim record, reproduced verbatim.
It is a strong claim and courts, parliaments and researchers hold each other to it — a verbatim record is not a summary. Verbatim theatre builds plays entirely from real speech. Note that the Latin means word by word, from verbum, a word, which also gives verb and verbal.
1adverbverbatimRepeated word for word, exactly as said.
“She repeated his words verbatim, so there could be no argument about what he'd said.”
verbatim is a manner of quoting.
The Latin verbum is a word, the same word that gives us verb. Verbatim is word for word, with nothing of your own added.
hooks ontoverb
Medieval Latin verbatim is verbum, a word, plus an ending meaning by. Verb and verbal come from the same word.
Proto-Indo-European
*werh₁-
Medieval Latin
verbātim — word for word
English, today
verbatim
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Attested in English since 1481 (therefore considered a Middle English - derivation by some): from Medieval Latin verbātim (“word for word”), from Latin - verbum (“word”) + -ātim.
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