'versify' originates from Latin, specifically the word 'versificare', where 'versus' meant 'a line or row' and 'facere' meant 'to make'.

'versificare' transformed into the Old French word 'versifier', and eventually became the modern English word 'versify' through Middle English.

Initially, it meant 'to make verses', and this meaning has largely remained the same in modern usage.