The corpus record — Latin

verruca

wart; hillock

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Where it lives

Domitianus 1 · 2.91/10k
De Cultu Feminarum 1 · 1.95/10k
De Vita Beata 1 · 1.38/10k
Naturalis Historia 32 · 0.81/10k
Satyrarum libri 1 · 0.7/10k
Res Rustica, Books I-IX 2 · 0.25/10k
Noctes Atticae 2 · 0.18/10k
Institutio Oratoria 2 · 0.12/10k
De Medicina 1 · 0.1/10k

What it meant

1. verruca — de Vaan

verruca 'wart; hillock' [f a] (Cato+) Pit. *we/ors-u- 'hill, top'. PIE *u(e/o)rs-u- 'height, top\ IE cognates: Olr, ferr 'better' < PCL *werro- 'high' < — [de Vaan, s.v. verruca, p. 680]

2. verrūca — Lewis & Short

verrūca, ae, f.,

I a steep place, height.

I Lit., Cato ap. Gell. 3, 7, 6; 3, 7, 13 (cf. also Quint. 8, 3, 48; 8, 6, 14).—

II Transf

1 A wart on the human body, Plin. 20, 12, 48, § 123; 22, 21, 29, § 59; 33, 4, 25, § 85.—

2 An excrescence on precious stones, Plin. 37, 12, 74, § 195.—*

B Trop., a slight fault, small failing, opp. to tuber, Hor. S. 1, 3, 74.

3. verrüca — Walde–Hofmann

verrüca, -ae f. „Warze“; bei Cato auch ‘locus &ditus et asper? nach Gell. 3,7 (seit Cato), verrücula, -ae f. „Wärzchen“ seit Cels., verrücósus, -G, -um , warzenreich" seit Cic., verrücária (herba), -ae f. „Warzenkraut“ seit Plin.; dazu ON. Verrügo „Stadt der Volsker“ (seit Liv., nach Norden Alt-Germanien 103%, Ernout RPh. 67, 103f. [vgl. albügö : albücus usw.)): aus *yersücá , Erhebung" (über *vorrüca, Brugmann II? … — [Walde–Hofmann, s.v. verrüca, p. 1670]

In the wild

verruca Tertullian, De Cultu Feminarum 1.6
verrucas Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 28.4.p6
verrucas Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 27.9.p2
verrucas Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 20.12.p2
verrucae Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 23.praef.p2
verrucas Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 23.7.p2

6 of 43 attestations shown.

Where it came from

de Vaan, Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Brill 2008) Treated in de Vaan, Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Brill 2008) s.v. verruca (scan p. 680; entry #1954). Root candidates: *werro-.
Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch Treated in Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. verrüca (scan pp. 1670-1671; entry #3201). Root candidates: *uarz-, *werd-, *varda-.

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