Wort Definition

wûrt, wôrt
noun
A plant, vegetable, or herb.
Webster's New World
A liquid, produced from malt and hot water, which can be fermented to make beer or ale, or fermented and distilled to make whiskey.
Webster's New World

Other Word Forms of Wort

Noun

Singular:
wort
Plural:
worts

Origin of Wort

  • From Middle English wort, worte, from Old English wyrt, wyrte (“brewing wort, new beer, spice"), from Proto-Germanic *wurtijō (“spice"), from Proto-Indo-European *werǝd-, *wrād- (“sprout, root"). Cognate with Dutch wort (“wort"), German Würze (“wort, seasoning, spice"), Danish urt (“beer wort"), Swedish vört (“beer wort").

    From Wiktionary

  • From Middle English wort, wurt, wirte, from Old English wyrt (“herb, vegetable, plant, crop, root"), from Germanic wurtiz, from Proto-Indo-European *wréhâ‚‚ds. Cognate with German Wurz (“herb, root"), Danish urt (“herb"), Swedish ört (“herb"), Icelandic jurt (“herb"), Latin rādix (“root"). More at root.

    From Wiktionary

  • Middle English from Old English wyrt wrād- in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • Middle English from Old English wyrt wrād- in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

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