different between herbage vs wort

English

Etymology

From Middle English erbage, from Middle French herbage and Old French erbage, from Medieval Latin herbaticum, from Latin herba (“grass”); alternatively, herb +? -age.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?h??b?d?/

Noun

herbage (usually uncountable, plural herbages)

1. Herbs collectively.
2. Herbaceous plant growth, especially grass.
   • 1841, Edgar Allan Poe, ‘A Descent into the Maelström’:

     I threw myself upon my face, and clung to the scant herbage in an excess of nervous agitation.

   • 1891, Mary Noailles Murfree, In the "Stranger People's" Country, Nebraska 2005, p. 97:

     The dank breath of herbage, sodden with rain, came to her; the mists were barely visible, hovering above the dark ravines.

3. The fleshy, often edible, parts of plants.
4. (law) The natural pasture of a land, considered as distinct from the land itself; hence, right of pasture (on another man's land).

Translations

French

Etymology

From Old French erbage, from Medieval Latin herb?ticum, from Latin herba (“grass”); equivalent to herbe +? -age.

Pronunciation

• ^{(mute h)} IPA^(key): /??.ba?/

Noun

herbage m (plural herbages)

1. pasture

Related terms

• herbe

Further reading

• “herbage” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /w??t/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /w?t/
• Rhymes: -??(?)t

Etymology 1

From Middle English wort, wurt, wyrte (“plant”), from Old English wyrt (“herb, vegetable, plant, crop, root”), from Proto-Germanic *wurtiz, from Proto-Indo-European *wréh?ds. Doublet of root.

Noun

wort (plural worts)

1. (archaic) A plant; herb; vegetable.

   • he drinks water, and lives on wort leaves, pulse, like a hogg, or scraps like a dog […].

   • 1673, Jeremy Taylor, Heniaytos: A Course of Sermons for All the Sundays of the Year […]

     It is an excellent pleasure to be able to take pleasure in worts and water, in bread and onions, for then a man can never want pleasure when it is so ready for him, that nature hath spread it over all its provisions.

2. Any of various plants or herbs, used in combination to refer to specific plants such as St. John's wort, or on its own as a generic term.

Derived terms

Translations

Further reading

• List of wort plants on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Etymology 2

From Middle English wort, worte (“brewing wort”), from Old English wyrt, wyrte (“brewing wort, new beer, spice”), from Proto-Germanic *wurtij? (“spice”), from Proto-Indo-European *wr?h?d- (“sprout, root”).

Cognate with Dutch wort (“wort”), German Würze (“wort, seasoning, spice”), Danish urt (“beer wort”), Swedish vört (“beer wort”).

Noun

wort (uncountable)

1. (brewing) Liquid extract from the ground malt and grain soaked in hot water, the mash, as one of the steps in making beer.

Translations

Further reading

• wort on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• ROTW, rowt, trow

Alemannic German

Alternative forms

• wòrt, wört, wourd, wuart

Etymology

From Middle High German wort. Cognate with German Wort, Dutch woord, English word, Icelandic orð.

Noun

wort n

1. (Formazza) word

References

• “wort” in Patuzzi, Umberto, ed., (2013) Ünsarne Börtar [Our Words], Luserna, Italy: Comitato unitario delle isole linguistiche storiche germaniche in Italia / Einheitskomitee der historischen deutschen Sprachinseln in Italien

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch worte, from Old Dutch *wurta, from Proto-Germanic *wurtij?.

Pronunciation

Noun

wort n (uncountable)

1. wort (unfermented beer)

Middle Dutch

Etymology

From Old Dutch wort

Noun

wort n or f

1. word
2. diction, what someone says or writes
3. prescription, order

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Alternative forms

• w?ort

Descendants

• Dutch: woord
• Limburgish: waord, waordj

Further reading

• “wort”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• Verwijs, E.; Verdam, J. (1885–1929) , “wort (I)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, ?ISBN, page I

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old English wyrt (“plant, herb”), from Proto-Germanic *wr?ts (oblique stem *wurt-), from Proto-Indo-European *wréh?ds. Doublet of rote (“root”).

Alternative forms

• worte, wurte, woort, wrt, wyrte, wert, wuyrte

Pronunciation

• (mainly Early ME) IPA^(key): /?wirt/
• IPA^(key): /?wurt/

Noun

wort (plural wortes or worten)

2. A plant (not including trees, shrubs, etc.):
   1. A plant that is wild or not cultivated or harvested.
   2. A plant that harvested or grown; often as a herb or vegetable.
   3. A plant employed for supposed curative or medical properties.
   4. A leaf as part of a salad or other vegetable dish.

Usage notes

This term is often used in compounds.

Related terms

Descendants

• English: wort

References

• “w?rt, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2019-02-22.

Etymology 2

From Old English wyrt, wyrte (“wort”), from Proto-Germanic *wurtij?.

Alternative forms

• wurte, worte, woort, wrt, wurt

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?wurt/

Noun

wort (uncountable)

2. Wort (as in brewing) or an analogous mixture (e.g. used for mead)

Descendants

• English: wort
• Scots: wort, wirt

References

• “w?rt, n.(2).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2019-02-22.

Middle High German

Etymology

From Old High German wort.
The sense verb is a literal translation of Latin verbum.

Noun

wort n

1. word
2. (grammar) verb
   • 14th century, Heinrich von Mügeln. Normalised spellings: 1867, Karl Julis Schröer, Die Dichtungen Heinrichs von Mügeln (Mogelîn) nach den Handschriften besprochen, Wien, p. 476:

     Nam, vornam, wort, darnâch

     zûwort, teilfanc, zûfûg ich sach,

     vorsatz, înworf under irem dach

     gemunzet und geformet stân.

Descendants

• Alemannic German:

  Alsatian: Wort

  Italian Walser: wort, wourd, wuart, wòrt, wört

  Swabian: Wort

• Bavarian: Wort

  Cimbrian: bóart, bort

  Mòcheno: bourt

  Udinese: boart, bort, bört

• Central Franconian: Woot, Wort

  Hunsrik: Wort

• German: Wort
• Luxembourgish: Wuert
• Vilamovian: wiüt
• Yiddish: ??????? (vort)

Old Dutch

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *word

Noun

wort n

1. word

Inflection

Descendants

• Middle Dutch: wort
  • Dutch: woord
  • Limburgish: waord, waordj

Further reading

• “wort”, in Oudnederlands Woordenboek, 2012

Old High German

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *word, whence also Old Dutch wort, Old Saxon and Old English word, Old Norse orð, Gothic ???????????????????? (waurd).
The sense verb is a literal translation of Latin verbum.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?wort/

Noun

wort n

1. word
2. (grammar) verb

Declension

Descendants

• Middle High German: wort
  • Alemannic German:

    Alsatian: Wort

    Italian Walser: wort, wourd, wuart, wòrt, wört

    Swabian: Wort

  • Bavarian: Wort

    Cimbrian: bóart, bort

    Mòcheno: bourt

    Udinese: boart, bort, bört

  • Central Franconian: Woot, Wort

    Hunsrik: Wort

  • German: Wort
  • Luxembourgish: Wuert
  • Vilamovian: wiüt
  • Yiddish: ??????? (vort)

Scots

Alternative forms

• wirt

Etymology

From Middle English wort

Noun

wort (uncountable)

1. (Middle Scots) wort

References

• “wort” in the Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries.