verruga
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verruga (plural verrugas)
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Etymology edit
From Latin verrūca (“heights, wart”).
Pronunciation edit
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verruga f (plural verrugas)
- (Mañegu, Valverdeñu) wart
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Galician edit
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Etymology edit
Attested, as toponym, since the 13th century. From Latin verrūca (“heights; wart”).
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Noun edit
verruga f (plural verrugas)
- (pathology) wart (type of growth occurring on the skin)
- Synonym: espulla
- 1390, J. L. Pensado Tomé, editor, Os Miragres de Santiago, Madrid: C.S.I.C., page 200:
- en aquel lugar que cortara naçeulle hũa atal com̃o berruga por que fazia sua ourina quando lle era mester
- on that place where it was cut down it grew one such as a wart, by which he made his urine whenever he needed to
References edit
- “verruga” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
- “erruga” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
- “verruga” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
- “verruga” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
- “verruga” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.
Portuguese edit
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Etymology edit
From Latin verrūca (“heights; wart”), from Proto-Indo-European *wers-.
Pronunciation edit
- Hyphenation: ver‧ru‧ga
Noun edit
verruga f (plural verrugas)
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Etymology edit
Inherited from Latin verrūca (“heights; wart”), from Proto-Indo-European *wers-.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
verruga f (plural verrugas)
Further reading edit
- “verruga”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014