verruca

== English == === Etymology === Borrowed from Latin verrūca. Doublet of wart. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): (UK) /vəˈɹuːkə/, (Received Pronunciation) /vɛˈɹuːkə/ Rhymes: -uːkə === Noun === verruca (plural verrucas or verrucae) (pathology) A wart, especially one that grows on the foot, caused by a human papilloma virus. (mycology) A rounded projection or wart. (botany) A sexine element similar to a wart. ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Related terms ==== verruca plantaris ==== Translations ==== == Italian == === Etymology === Inherited from Latin verruca. === Noun === verruca f (plural verruche) (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 a steep place, height a wart on the human body an excrescence on precious stones ==== Declension ==== First-declension noun. ==== Derived terms ==== verrucaria verrucosus verrucula ==== Descendants ==== === References === === 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.