verruca

From Latin verrūca.

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

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• Rhymes: -uːkə

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.

From Latin verruca.

verruca f (plural verruche)

1. (medicine) verruca

• curvare, curverà

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”).

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

verrūca f (genitive verrūcae); first declension

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

First-declension noun.

• verrucaria
• verrucosus
• verrucula

• “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.