verruca

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin verrūca. Doublet of wart.

Pronunciation

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

Related terms

• verruca plantaris

Translations

wart — see wart

Italian

Etymology

Inherited from Latin verruca.

Noun

verruca f (plural verruche)

1. (medicine) verruca

Related terms

• brufolo
• verracchia
• verrucoso

Anagrams

• curvare, curverà

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *we/ors-u- + -ūca, 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): [wɛrˈruː.ka]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [verˈruː.ka]

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

• Balkano-Romance:
  • >? Romanian: boroacă, beregată
• Italo-Romance:
  • Italian: verruca, ⇒ verracchia, brufolo
  • Sicilian: virruca
• Gallo-Romance:
  • Catalan: berruga
  • Old French:
    • French: verrue
    • Norman: véthue (Jersey)
• Ibero-Romance:
  • Old Galician-Portuguese:
    • Fala: verruga
    • Galician: verruga
    • Portuguese: verruga, berruga
  • Spanish: verruga
• Borrowings:
  • → English: verruca
  • → Romanian: verucă
  • → Translingual: Verruca

Further reading

• “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.