different between weed vs wort

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /wi?d/
• Rhymes: -i?d
• Homophone: we'd

Etymology 1

From Middle English weed, weod, from Old English w?od (“weed”), from Proto-West Germanic *weud, from Proto-Germanic *weud? (“weed”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian Jood (“weed”), West Frisian wjûd (“weed”), Dutch wied (“unwanted plant, weed”), German Low German Weed (“weed”), Old High German wiota (“fern”).

Noun

weed (countable and uncountable, plural weeds)

1. (countable) Any plant regarded as unwanted at the place where, and at the time when it is growing.
2. Short for duckweed.
3. (uncountable, archaic or obsolete) Underbrush; low shrubs.
4. A drug or the like made from the leaves of a plant.
   1. (uncountable, slang) Cannabis.

      Synonyms: see Thesaurus:marijuana
   2. (with "the", uncountable, slang) Tobacco.
   3. (obsolete, countable) A cigar.
5. (countable) A weak horse, which is therefore unfit to breed from.
6. (countable, Britain, informal) A puny person; one who has little physical strength.
7. (countable, figuratively) Something unprofitable or troublesome; anything useless.

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• grow like a weed
• weeds

Etymology 2

From Middle English weeden, weden, from Old English w?odian (“to weed”), from Proto-Germanic *weud?n? (“to uproot, weed”). Cognate with West Frisian wjûde, wjudde (“to weed”),Dutch wieden (“to weed”), German Low German weden (“to weed”).

Verb

weed (third-person singular simple present weeds, present participle weeding, simple past and past participle weeded)

1. To remove unwanted vegetation from a cultivated area.

   I weeded my flower bed.

2. (library science) To systematically remove materials from a library collection based on a set of criteria.

   We usually weed romance novels that haven't circulated in over a year.

Translations

See also

• weed out

Etymology 3

From Middle English wede, from Old English w?d (“dress, attire, clothing, garment”), from Proto-Germanic *w?diz, from which also wad, wadmal. Cognate with Dutch lijnwaad, Dutch gewaad, German Wat.

Noun

weed (plural weeds)

1. (archaic) A garment or piece of clothing.
   • 1612, Michael Drayton, Poly-Olbion song 5 p. 75[2]:

     Shee, in a watchet weed, with manie a curious wave

     Which as a princelie gift great Amphitrite gave

2. (archaic) Clothing collectively; clothes, dress.
   • 1599, William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing, Act 5 Scene 3

     DON PEDRO. Come, let us hence, and put on other weeds;

     And then to Leonato's we will go.

     CLAUDIO. And Hymen now with luckier issue speed's,

     Than this for whom we rend'red up this woe!
3. (archaic) An article of dress worn in token of grief; a mourning garment or badge.

4. (archaic, especially in the plural as "widow's weeds") (Female) mourning apparel.
   • 1641, John Milton, Of Reformation in England, Second Book:

     In a mourning weed, with ashes upon her head, and tears abundantly flowing.

Translations

Etymology 4

From Scots weid, weed. The longer form weidinonfa, wytenonfa (Old Scots wedonynpha) is attested since the 1500s. Jamieson's Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language analyses the longer form as a compound meaning "onfa(ll) of a weed", whereas the Scottish National Dictionary/DSL considers the short form a derivative of the longer form, and derives its first element from Old English w?dan (“to be mad or delirious”), from w?d (“mad, enraged”).

Noun

weed (plural weeds)

1. (Scotland) A sudden illness or relapse, often attended with fever, which befalls those who are about to give birth, are giving birth, or have recently given birth or miscarried or aborted.
   • 1822, William Campbell, Observations on the Disease usually termed Puerperal Fever, with Cases, in The Edinburgh Medical and Surgical Journal, volume 18:

     The patient […] aborted between the second and third month; […] felt herself so well on the second day after, that she went to the washing-green; and, on her return home in the evening, was seized with a violent rigor, which, by herself and those around her, was considered as the forerunner of a weed.

2. (Scotland) Lymphangitis in a horse.

Etymology 5

From the verb wee.

Verb

weed

1. simple past tense and past participle of wee

References

• weed in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• Webster, Noah (1828) , “weed”, in An American Dictionary of the English Language
• (tobacco; a cigar): 1873, John Camden Hotten, The Slang Dictionary

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.