The story
- Latin · derived fromverrūca“wart”
- Late Latin · borrowed fromverrūcōsus
- English todayverrucous
Borrowed from Late Latin verrūcōsus, from Latin verrūca (“wart”). By surface analysis, verruca + -ous. Doublet of verrucose.
Words from the same roots
Late Latinverrūcōsus all →
verrucose
Latinverrūca all →
baroqueverruca
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.