verruca

English

Etymology

From Latin verrūca.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /vəˈɹuːkə/, (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /vɛˈɹuːkə/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -uːkə

Noun

verruca (plural verrucas or verrucae)

1. (pathology) A wart, especially one that grows on the foot, caused by a human papilloma virus.
2. (mycology) A rounded projection or wart.
3. (botany) A sexine element similar to a wart.

Derived terms

• verruca sock

 

Translations

wart — see wart

Italian

Etymology

From Latin verruca.

Noun

verruca f (plural verruche)

1. (medicine) verruca

Anagrams

• curvare, curverà

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *wers-, from *wer- (“highland, high”). Cognate with varus, varix, Old Church Slavonic врьхъ (vrĭxŭ, “top, peak”), Ancient Greek ἕρμα (hérma, “reef, rock, hill”), Lithuanian viršùs (“top”), Old Irish ferr (“best”), Old High German riso (“giant”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /u̯erˈruː.ka/, [u̯ɛrˈruːkä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /verˈru.ka/, [verˈruːkä]

Noun

verrūca f (genitive verrūcae); first declension

1. a steep place, height
2. A wart on the human body.
3. An excrescence on precious stones.

Declension

First-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	verrūca	verrūcae
genitive	verrūcae	verrūcārum
dative	verrūcae	verrūcīs
accusative	verrūcam	verrūcās
ablative	verrūcā	verrūcīs
vocative	verrūca	verrūcae

Derived terms

• verrucaria
• verrucosus
• verrucula

Descendants

• Catalan: berruga
• French: verrue
• Galician: verruga
• Italian: verruca
• Norman: véthue (Jersey)
• Portuguese: berruga, verruga
• Romanian: beregată, boroacă, verucă
• Sicilian: virruca
• Spanish: verruga
• Translingual: Verruca

References

• “verruca”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “verruca”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• verruca in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.