newt

English

A male smooth newt (Lissotriton vulgaris)

Etymology

From Middle English newete, a form resulting from an incorrect division of Middle English an ewte as a newete (for similar misdivisions compare adder, nickname, apron, umpire, etc.). Middle English ewte, eute, euete, evete (“newt”), derives from Old English efete (“lizard; newt”). Doublet of eft.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -uːt

Noun

newt (plural newts)

1. A small lizard-like amphibian in the family Salamandridae that lives in the water as an adult.

Synonyms

• ask/askard (dialectal)
• eft (usually refers to the terrestrial phase of a newt)
• salamander

Translations

type of salamander

• Albanian: triton m
• Arabic: سَمَنْدَل‏‎ m (samandal)
• Armenian: տրիտոն (hy) (triton)
• Azeri: triton, səməndər
• Belarusian: трыто́н m (trytón)
• Bulgarian: трито́н m (tritón)
• Burmese: please add this translation if you can
• Catalan: tritó m
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 蠑螈, 蝾螈 (wing⁴ jyun⁴)

  Mandarin: 蠑螈 (zh), 蝾螈 (zh) (róngyuán)

• Czech: mlok (cs) m, čolek (cs) m
• Dutch: salamander (nl) m
• Erzya: ведьметьказ (vedʹmetʹkaz)
• Estonian: vesilik, triiton
• Finnish: vesilisko (fi)
• French: triton (fr) m
• Galician: tritón m
• Georgian: ტრიტონი (ṭriṭoni)
• German: Molch (de) m
• Greek: τρίτων (el) m (tríton)
• Hebrew: טרִיטוֹן‏‎ m (triton)
• Hindi: सरटिका f (sarṭikā)
• Hungarian: gőte (hu)
• Italian: tritone (it) m
• Japanese: イモリ (imori), 井守 (ja) (いもり, imori), 蠑螈 (いもり, imori)
• Kazakh: тритон (trïton)
• Khmer: please add this translation if you can

• Korean: 영원 (ko) (yeong-won) (蠑螈)
• Kyrgyz: тритон (triton)
• Lao: please add this translation if you can
• Latvian: tritons m
• Lithuanian: tritonas m
• Macedonian: до́ждовник m (dóždovnik)
• Norman: lêzarde dg'ieau f
• Persian: سمندرک‏‎ (samandarak)
• Polish: traszka (pl) f
• Portuguese: tritão (pt) m
• Romanian: triton (ro) m
• Russian: трито́н (ru) m (tritón), салама́ндра (ru) f (salamándra) (salamander)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: водењак m

  Roman: vodenjak (sh) m

• Slovak: mlok m
• Slovene: pupek (sl) m
• Spanish: tritón (es) m
• Swedish: vattenödla c
• Tagalog: triton
• Thai: นิวต์ (niw)
• Turkish: semender (tr)
• Turkmen: triton
• Ukrainian: трито́н m (trytón)
• Uzbek: triton (uz)
• Vietnamese: sa giông
• Volapük: (male or female) salmun
• Welsh: madfall ddŵr f

Related terms

• pissed as a newt

See also

• newt on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Wikipedia article on the indefinite articles a and an

Anagrams

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