wort

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /wɜːt/

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /wɝt/, (spelling pronunciation) /wɔrt/
• Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)t

From Middle English wort, wurt, wyrte (“plant”), from Old English wyrt (“herb, vegetable, plant, crop, root”), from Proto-West Germanic *wurti, from Proto-Germanic *wurtiz, from Proto-Indo-European *wréh₂ds. Doublet of root and related to orchard.

wort (plural worts)

1. (archaic) A plant; herb; vegetable.
   • 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Printed by John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, OCLC 54573970:

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

   • 1651–1653, Jer[emy] Taylor, ΕΝΙΑΥΤΟΣ [Eniautos]. A Course of Sermons for All the Sundays of the Year. […], 2nd edition, London: […] Richard Royston […], published 1655, OCLC 1051524189:

     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.
   • 2009, Victoria Zak, 20,000 Secrets of Tea, page 172:

     Two saints are credited with giving St. John’s wort its name. One was St. John of Jerusalem, who used the wort (plant) during the crusades to heal his knights’ battlefield wounds, and the other was John the Baptist.

• List of wort plants on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• “wort”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary

From Middle English wort, worte (“brewing wort”), from Old English wyrt, wyrte (“brewing wort, new beer, spice”), from Proto-West Germanic *wurtiju (“spice”), from Proto-Indo-European *wr̥h₂d- (“sprout, root”).

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

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 or whisky.
   • 2004, Harold McGee, chapter 13, in On Food and Cooking: The Science and Lore of the Kitchen, Scribner, →ISBN:

     Making the wort with nothing but barley malt and hot water is the standard method in Germany, and in many U.S. microbreweries.

   • 2017, Jon C. Stott, Beer 101 North:

     While Robert and I were chatting generally about the craft brewing explosion, Piper arrived in the taproom. He didn't call her his “ale wife,” but it soon became apparent that she had “good wort cunning.”

• wort on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• ROTW, Trow, rowt, trow

• wòrt, wört, wourd, wuart

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

wort n

1. (Formazza) word

• Patuzzi, Umberto, ed., (2013) Luserna / Lusérn: Le nostre parole / Ünsarne börtar / Unsere Wörter [Our Words], Luserna, Italy: Comitato unitario delle isole linguistiche storiche germaniche in Italia / Einheitskomitee der historischen deutschen Sprachinseln in Italien

From Middle Dutch worte, from Old Dutch *wurta, from Proto-West Germanic *wurtiju.

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wort n (uncountable)

1. wort (unfermented beer)

From Old Dutch wort.

wort n or f

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

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

• wōort

• Dutch: woord
• Limburgish: waord, waordj

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

From Old English wyrt (“plant, herb”), from Proto-West Germanic *wurti, from Proto-Germanic *wrōts (oblique stem *wurt-), from Proto-Indo-European *wréh₂ds. Doublet of rote (“root”).

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

• (mainly Early ME) IPA^(key): /ˈwirt/
• IPA^(key): /ˈwurt/

wort (plural wortes or worten)

1. A plant (not including trees, shrubs, etc.):
   • c. 1395, John Wycliffe, John Purvey [et al.], transl., Bible (Wycliffite Bible (later version), MS Lich 10.)‎, published c. 1410, Matheu 13:31-32, page 6v, column 1; republished as Wycliffe's translation of the New Testament, Lichfield: Bill Endres, 2010:

     An oþer parable iheſus puttide foꝛþ to hem. / ⁊ ſeide / þe kyngdom of heuenes is lijk to a coꝛn of ſeneuey · which a man took ⁊ ſewe in his feeld · / which is þe leeſt of alle ſeedis / but whanne it haþ woxen .· it is the mooſt of alle woꝛtis · ⁊ is maad a tre / ſo þe bꝛiddis of þe eir comen ⁊ dwellen in þe bowis þerof.

     Jesus put another parable forwards to them, saying: "The Kingdom of Heaven is like a mustard seed that a person took and sowed in their field; / it is the smallest of all seeds, but when it has grown, it is the largest of all plants; it becomes a tree, so the birds of the air come and nest in its branches."

   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.

This term is often used in compounds.

• English: wort

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

From Old English wyrt (“wort”), from Proto-West Germanic *wurtiju.

• woort, worte, wrt, wurt, wurte

• IPA^(key): /ˈwurt/

wort (uncountable)

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

• English: wort
• Scots: wort, wirt

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

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

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.

• 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: וואָרט‎ (vort)

From Proto-West Germanic *word.

wort n

1. word

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

• “wort”, in Oudnederlands Woordenboek, 2012

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈwort/

wort n

1. word
2. (grammar) verb

• 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: וואָרט‎ (vort)

• wirt

From Middle English wort.

wort (uncountable)

1. (Middle Scots) wort

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