wart

See also: Wart and wärt

English

Etymology

From Middle English warte, werte, from Old English wearte, from Proto-West Germanic *wartā, from Proto-Germanic *wartǭ. Cognate with Dutch wrat, German Warze, Hunsrik Waarz, Swedish vårta.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /wɔːt/
• (US) IPA^(key): /wɔɹt/
• Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)t

• Audio (US)

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Noun

wart (plural warts)

1. (pathology) A type of deformed growth occurring on the skin caused by the human papillomavirus (HPV).

   A wart has appeared on my toe.

2. Any similar growth occurring in plants or animals, such as the parotoid glands in the back of toads.
3. (informal, figurative) Anything unsightly or undesirable; a blemish.
   • 2011, Pat Dorsey, The Five Rules for Successful Stock Investing:

     Things that look too good to be true usually are, and every company has some warts that need to be taken into account.

4. (programming, slang, derogatory) Any of the prefixes used in Hungarian notation.
   • 1998, Chris Ahlstrom, “Hungarian notation”, in microsoft.public.vc.language (Usenet):

     Hungarian warts suck big time! If you need them, your functions are too big and your class interface is much too fat.

   • 2002, Linonut, “Computer Science”, in comp.os.linux.advocacy (Usenet):

     Far easier to not use warts in the first place. Even if a wart is present, you still have to verify the variable's declaration anyway, if you're a diligent maintenance programmer.

Derived terms

• fig-wart
• genital wart
• Peruvian wart
• plantar wart
• planter's wart
• potato wart
• prosector's wart
• senile wart
• soot wart
• wall wart
• wart-biter
• warthog
• warts and all
• wart snake
• warty
• warty toad
• water wart
• worrywart

 

Translations

type of growth occurring on the skin

• Aklanon: butig
• Albanian: lez (sq)
• Arabic: ثُؤْلُول m (ṯuʔlūl)

  Egyptian Arabic: سنطاية f (sánṭāya)

  Moroccan Arabic: تولالة f (tolala)

• Armenian: գորտնուկ (hy) (gortnuk)
• Assamese: আজিনাই (azinai)
• Azerbaijani: ziyil
• Bashkir: һөйәл (höyəl)
• Basque: garatxo
• Belarusian: баро́даўка f (baródaŭka)
• Breton: gwenaenn f
• Bulgarian: брада́вица (bg) f (bradávica)
• Burmese: ကြွက်နို့ (my) (krwaknui.)
• Catalan: berruga (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 瘊子 (zh) (hóuzi), 肉贅／肉赘 (zh) (ròuzhuì), (formal) 疣 (zh) (yóu), 贅瘤／赘瘤 (zh) (zhuìliú), 贅疣／赘疣 (zh) (zhuìyóu)

• Chuvash: шӗпӗн (šĕp̬ĕn), шӗкӗл (šĕk̬ĕl)
• Czech: bradavice (cs) f
• Danish: vorte c
• Dutch: wrat (nl) f
• Esperanto: veruko
• Estonian: soolatüügas (et)
• Faroese: kambfjøður f, finnur m, finna f
• Finnish: syylä (fi)
• French: verrue (fr) f
• Galician: espulla f, empuxa f, verruga f, vorreca f
• Georgian: მეჭეჭი (meč̣eč̣i)
• German: Warze (de) f
• Greek: κρεατοελιά (el) f (kreatoeliá), ακροχορδώνα f (akrochordóna), μυρμηγκιά (el) f (myrmigkiá)

  Ancient: θύμιον n (thúmion)

• Hebrew: יַבֶּלֶת (he) f (yabėleţ)
• Hindi: मस्सा (hi) m (massā)
• Hungarian: szemölcs (hu), bibircsók (hu), varacsk, tyúkszem (hu), vadhús (hu)
• Hunsrik: Waarz f
• Icelandic: varta (is) f
• Ido: veruko (io)
• Ilocano: butig
• Indonesian: kutil (id)
• Irish: faithne m
• Italian: verruca (it) f, porro (it) m
• Japanese: 疣 (ja) (いぼ, ibo)
• Kazakh: сүйел (süiel)
• Khmer: ឫស (km) (rɨh)
• Korean: 사마귀 (ko) (samagwi)
• Kumyk: сюел (süyel), мин (min)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: بالووکە (balûke)

  Laki: بالیک (balîk)

  Northern Kurdish: balûk (ku)

  Southern Kurdish: بالۊک (balük)

• Kyrgyz: сөөл (ky) (sööl)
• Lao: ຫູດ (hūt)
• Latin: verrūca f
• Latvian: kārpa f
• Lithuanian: karpa f
• Luxembourgish: Waarzel f
• Macedonian: брада́вица f (bradávica)
• Maltese: felul m
• Mansaka: botig
• Maori: kautona, kiritona, marupo, unahiaua, tongatonga, tona
• Middle English: warte
• Navajo: sęęs
• Norman: véthue f
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: vorte (no) m or f

  Nynorsk: vorte f

• Occitan: verruga (oc) f
• Old English: wearte f
• Persian: زگیل (fa) (zegil), بالو (fa) (bâlu), آزخ (fa) (âzax)
• Plautdietsch: Wraut (nds) f
• Polish: brodawka (pl) f, kurzajka (pl) f
• Portuguese: verruga (pt) f
• Romanian: neg (ro), gâlmă (ro) f
• Russian: борода́вка (ru) f (borodávka)
• Salar: süle
• Sanskrit: कच्छपी (sa) f (kacchapī)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: брадавица f (bradavica), пупчица f (pupčica)

  Roman: bradavica (sh) f, pupčica f

• Sicilian: virruca f
• Slovak: bradavica (sk) f
• Slovene: bradavica (sl) f
• Spanish: verruga (es) f
• Swedish: vårta (sv) c
• Tagalog: butig, kulugo
• Tajik: озах (ozax), севол (sevol), ағаз (aġaz)
• Tetum: futi
• Thai: หูด (th) (hùut)
• Tibetan: མཛེར་པ (mdzer pa)
• Turkish: siğil (tr)
• Turkmen: siňňil
• Ukrainian: боро́давка (uk) f (boródavka)
• Uzbek: soʻgal (uz)
• Vietnamese: mụn cóc, mụt cóc, hột cơm (vi)
• Walloon: porea (wa) m
• Welsh: dafaden (cy) f
• Yiddish: בראָדעווקע f (brodevke)

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Translations to be checked

• Georgian: ^{(please verify)} ხალი (ka) (xali)

See also

• verruca

German

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /vaːrt/, [vaːʁt], [vaːɐ̯t], [vaːt], [ʋ-]

• Audio

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Verb

wart

1. second-person plural preterite of sein

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /vart/, [vaʁt], [vaɐ̯t], [vaːt], [ʋ-]

Verb

wart

1. (chiefly colloquial) singular imperative of warten
2. (colloquial) first-person singular present of warten

Middle Dutch

Verb

wart

1. first/third-person singular past indicative of werden

Middle English

Noun

wart

1. Alternative form of warte

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /vart/

• Audio

  (file)

• Rhymes: -art
• Syllabification: wart

Etymology 1

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *vьrtъ, from *vьrtěti.

Noun

wart m inan

1. the main current of a river

   Hypernym: nurt

Declension

Declension of wart

	singular	plural
nominative	wart	warty
genitive	wartu	wartów
dative	wartowi	wartom
accusative	wart	warty
instrumental	wartem	wartami
locative	warcie	wartach
vocative	warcie	warty

Derived terms

adjectives

• wartki
• wartny

 

noun

• wartkość

 

proper noun

• Warta

 

Related terms

nouns

• warstwa
• wertep
• wrota
• wrzeciono

 

verbs

• wiercić impf
• wracać impf, wrócić pf

 

Etymology 2

Borrowed from German wert, from Middle High German wert, from Old High German werd, from Proto-Germanic *werþaz.

Alternative forms

• warty (obsolete, proscribed)

Adjective

wart (comparative bardziej wart, superlative najbardziej wart, no derived adverb)

1. worth (having a value of; proper to be exchanged for)

   Antonym: niewart

2. worth, worthy (deserving)

   Antonym: niewart

Declension

Declension of wart (hard)

singular					plural
	masculine animate	masculine inanimate	feminine	neuter	virile (= masculine personal)	non-virile
nominative	wart		warta	warte	warci	warte
genitive	wartego		wartej	wartego	wartych
dative	wartemu		wartej	wartemu	wartym
accusative	wartego	wart	wartą	warte	wartych	warte
instrumental	wartym		wartą	wartym	wartymi
locative	wartym		wartej	wartym	wartych

Derived terms

adjective

• wartny

 

noun

• wartość

 

verbs

• wartać impf
• warto impf

 

Related terms

adjectives

• wartościowościowy
• wartościowy
• wartościujący

 

adverbs

• wartościowo
• wartościująco

 

noun

• wartościowość

 

verb

• wartościować impf

 

Etymology 3

Borrowed from German Wert.

Noun

wart m inan

1. (obsolete) price, worth, value

   Synonyms: cena, wartość

Declension

Declension of wart

	singular	plural
nominative	wart	warty
genitive	wartu	wartów
dative	wartowi	wartom
accusative	wart	warty
instrumental	wartem	wartami
locative	warcie	wartach
vocative	warcie	warty

Etymology 4

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Noun

wart f

1. genitive plural of warta

Further reading

• wart in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• wart in Polish dictionaries at PWN