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)

  (file)

Noun

wart (plural warts)

1. (pathology) A type of deformed growth occurring on the skin caused by the human papillomavirus (HPV).
2. Any similar growth occurring in plants or animals, such as the parotoid glands in the back of toads.
3. (computing, programming, slang, derogatory) Any of the prefixes used in Hungarian notation.
   • 1998, "Chris Ahlstrom", Hungarian notation (on newsgroup microsoft.public.vc.language)

     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 (on newsgroup comp.os.linux.advocacy)

     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

• genital wart
• Peruvian wart
• plantar wart
• wall wart

• warthog
• warty
• warts and all
• warty toad

Translations

type of growth occurring on the skin

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

  Egyptian Arabic: سنطاية‎ f (sánṭāya)

  Moroccan Arabic: تولالة‎ f (tolala)

• Armenian: գորտնուկ (hy) (gortnuk)
• Assamese: আজিনাই (azinai)
• Azerbaijani: ziyil
• Bashkir: һөйәл (höyäl)
• 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 (zh), 肉赘 (zh) (ròuzhuì), (formal) 疣 (zh) (yóu), 贅瘤 (zh), 赘瘤 (zh) (zhuìliú), 贅疣 (zh), 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, verruga 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
• 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 (süyel)
• 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: брадавица f (bradavica)
• 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) (bālū), آزخ‎ (fa) (āzax)
• 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)
• Sanskrit: कच्छपी (sa) f (kacchapī)
• Serbo-Croatian:

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

  Roman: bradavica (sh) f, pupčica 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 (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

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables, removing any numbers. Numbers do not necessarily match those in definitions. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

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

See also

• verruca

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

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Middle Dutch

Verb

wart

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

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Middle English

Noun

wart

1. Alternative form of warte

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Polish

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /vart/

• Audio

  (file)

• Rhymes: -art

Adjective

wart (comparative bardziej wart, superlative najbardziej wart)

1. worth

Declension

declension of wart

case	singular				plural
	masculine personal/animate	masculine inanimate	neuter	feminine	virile	nonvirile
nominative, vocative	wart		warte	warta	warci	warte
genitive	wartego			wartej	wartych
dative	wartemu				wartym
accusative	wartego	wart	warte	wartą	wartych	warte
instrumental	wartym				wartymi
locative				wartej	wartych

Derived terms

• (verb) warto
• (noun) wartość
• (adjective) warty

Related terms

• (verb) wartościować
• (noun) wartościowość
• (adjectives) wartościowy, wartościowościowy, wartościujący
• (adverbs) wartościowo, wartościująco

Further reading

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