wert

PronunciationEdit

• Rhymes: -ɜː(r)t

VerbEdit

wert

1. (archaic) second-person singular simple past subjunctive of be

   If thou wert mine, I would be in heaven!

   • 1611, The Bible, King James (Authorised) Version, (first & last usages),

     Job 8:6 "If thou wert pure and upright; surely now he would awake for thee, ..."

     Revelation 3:15 "I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot: I would thou wert cold or hot."

   • 1820, Percy Bysshe Shelley, To A Skylark, (first two lines of ode),

     "Hail to thee, blithe Spirit! Bird thou never wert, ..."

SynonymsEdit

• (second-person singular, modern) were (used with "you")

ReferencesEdit

• “wert” in The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition, Houghton Mifflin Company, 2000.
• “wert” in Dictionary.com Unabridged, v1.0.1, Lexico Publishing Group, 2006.

See alsoEdit

AnagramsEdit

• trew

EtymologyEdit

From Middle High German wert, akin to Old Saxon werth.

AdjectiveEdit

wert (comparative werter, superlative am wertesten) (+ genitive)

1. Worth (sth).

   Eigener Herd ist Goldes wert.

   Home sweet home

DeclensionEdit

Derived termsEdit

• wertfrei
• wertlos

NounEdit

wert

1. descendence