verruga

English

Noun

verruga (plural verrugas)

1. Obsolete form of verruca. (wart)

Anagrams

• gravure

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Galician

Alternative forms

• berruga, vorruga, vurruga

Etymology

Attested, as toponym, since the 13^th century. From Latin verrūca (“heights; wart”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [beˈruɣɐ]

Noun

verruga f (plural verrugas)

1. (pathology) wart (type of growth occurring on the skin)
   • 1390, J. L. Pensado Tomé (ed.), 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

   Synonym: espulla

References

• “verruga” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006-2012.
• “erruga” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
• “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.

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Portuguese

Alternative forms

• berruga

Etymology

From Latin verrūca (“heights; wart”), from Proto-Indo-European *wers-.

Pronunciation

• (South Brazil) IPA^(key): /ve.ˈhu.ɡa/
• Hyphenation: ver‧ru‧ga

Noun

verruga f (plural verrugas)

1. (pathology) wart (type of growth occurring on the skin)

Derived terms

• verruga peruana

Related terms

• enverrugado
• enverrugar
• verrucal

• verrucífero
• verruciforme
• verrucosidade

• verrucoso
• verrugoso
• verruguento

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Spanish

Etymology

From Latin verrūca (“heights; wart”), from Proto-Indo-European *wers-.

Noun

verruga f (plural verrugas)

1. wart, verruca