different between verruca vs verrucous

English

Etymology

From Latin verr?ca.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /v???u?k?/, (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /v???u?k?/
• Rhymes: -u?k?

Noun

verruca (plural verrucas or verrucae)

1. (pathology) A wart, especially one that grows on the foot, caused by a human papilloma virus.
2. (mycology) A rounded projection or wart.
3. (botany) A sexine element similar to a wart.

Translations

Italian

Etymology

From Latin verruca.

Noun

verruca f (plural verruche)

1. (medicine) verruca

Anagrams

• curvare, curverà

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *wers-, from *wer- (“highland, high”). Cognate with varus, varix, Old Church Slavonic ????? (vr?x?, “top, peak”), Ancient Greek ???? (hérma, “reef, rock, hill”), Lithuanian viršùs (“top”), Old Irish ferr (“best”), Old High German riso (“giant”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /u?er?ru?.ka/, [u??r?ru?kä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ver?ru.ka/, [v?r?ru?k?]

Noun

verr?ca f (genitive verr?cae); first declension

1. a steep place, height
2. A wart on the human body.
3. An excrescence on precious stones.

Declension

First-declension noun.

Derived terms

• verrucaria
• verrucosus
• verrucula

Descendants

References

• verruca in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• verruca in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• verruca in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

English

Etymology

verruca +? -ous

Adjective

verrucous (comparative more verrucous, superlative most verrucous)

1. wart-like, resembling a verruca; verrucose

Derived terms

• verrucous carcinoma
• verrucous endocarditis
• verrucous hemangioma
• verrucous nevus

Anagrams

• recurvous