wort

See also: Wort, wòrt, and wört

English

Pronunciation

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 *wréh₂ds. Cognate with German Wurz (“herb, root”), Danish urt (“herb”), Swedish ört (“herb”), Icelandic jurt (“herb”), Latin rādix (“root”). More at root.

Noun

wort (plural worts)

  1. (archaic) A plant; herb; vegetable.
    • 1621, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy, Oxford: Printed by Iohn Lichfield and Iames Short, for Henry Cripps, OCLC 216894069; The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd corrected and augmented edition, Oxford: Printed by John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, 1624, OCLC 54573970:
      he drinks water, and lives on wort leaves, pulse, like a hogg, or scraps like a dog […].
    • 1845, Rev. Jeremy Taylor, Works:
      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.
Derived terms
Terms derived from wort

* Entries containing derived terms containing wort

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Further reading

Etymology 2

From Middle English wort, worte (“brewing wort”), from Old English wyrt, wyrte (“brewing wort, new beer, spice”), from Proto-Germanic *wurtijō (“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”).

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.
    • 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. In most large breweries in the United States and elsewhere, unmalted “adjunct” sources of carbohydrate— ground or flaked rice, corn, wheat, barley, even sugar— are commonly added to the liquid to lower the amount of malt needed, and so the brewer’s production costs.
    • 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.”
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Alemannic German

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Middle High German wort, from Old High German wort, from Proto-Germanic *wurdą. 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 linguistiche storiche germaniche in Italia / Einheitskomitee der historischen deutschen Sprachinseln in Italien

Dutch

Pronunciation
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Noun

wort n (uncountable)

  1. wort (unfermented beer)

Middle Dutch

Etymology

From Old Dutch wort, from Proto-Germanic *wurdą, from Proto-Indo-European *werdʰh₁om.

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

Descendants

Further reading
  • “wort”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
  • “wort (I)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, 1929

Middle English

Etymology 1

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

Alternative forms

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

Noun

wort (plural wortes or worten)

  1. A plant (not including trees, shrubs, etc.):
    • a. 1382, John Wycliffe, “Matheu 13:31-32”, in Wycliffe's Bible:
      Another parable Jheſus puttide forth to hem, and ſeide, The kyngdom of heuenes is lijk to a corn of ſeneuey, which a man took, and ſewe in his feeld. / Which is the leeste of alle ſeedis, but whanne it hath woxen, it is the moste of alle wortis, and is maad a tre; ſo that briddis of the eir comen, and dwellen in the bowis therof.
      Jesus put another parable in front of them; he said: "The Kingdom of Heaven is like a mustard seed that a person took and sowed in their field. / It is the smallest of all the seeds, but when it grows, it is the largest of all the 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.
Usage notes

This term is often used in compounds.

Descendants
References

Etymology 2

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

Alternative forms

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈwurt/

Noun

wort (uncountable)

  1. Wort (as in brewing) or an analogous mixture (e.g. used for mead)
Descendants
  • English: wort
  • Scots: wirt
References

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

Old Dutch

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *wurdą, from Proto-Indo-European *werdʰo-.

Noun

wort n

  1. word

Inflection
Declension of wort
Singular Plural
nominative wort wort
accusative wort wort
genitive wordes wordo
dative worde wordon

Descendants

Further reading
  • “wort”, in Oudnederlands Woordenboek, 2012

Old High German

Etymology

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

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈwort/

Noun

wort n

  1. word
  2. (grammar) verb

Declension
Declension of wort (neuter a-stem)
case singular plural
nominative wort wort
accusative wort wort
genitive wortes worto
dative worte wortum
instrumental wortu —

Descendants
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