newt

English

A male smooth newt (Lissotriton vulgaris)

Etymology

From Middle English newte, newete, a form resulting from an incorrect division (a process known as rebracketing) of Middle English an ewte as a newte (for similar misdivisions compare adder, nickname, apron, umpire, etc.). Middle English evete, eute, euete, ewte (“newt”), derives from Old English efete (“lizard; newt”). Doublet of eft.

Pronunciation

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

• Audio (Southern England):

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈn(j)ut/
• (General Australian, New Zealand) IPA^(key): /ˈnjʉːt/
• Rhymes: -uːt

Noun

newt (plural newts)

1. A small lizard-like amphibian in the family Salamandridae that lives in the water as an adult.

Synonyms

• ask/askard (dialectal)
• eft (usually refers to the terrestrial phase of a newt)
• salamander

Derived terms

• alpine newt
• California newt
• fire-bellied newt
• great crested newt
• newtish
• newtlike
• newtly
• paddle-tailed newt
• palmated newt
• palmate newt
• pissed as a newt
• smooth newt

 

Translations

type of salamander

• Albanian: triton m
• Arabic: سَمَنْدَل m (samandal)
• Armenian: տրիտոն (hy) (triton)
• Assamese: নিউট (niut)
• Azerbaijani: triton, səməndər
• Basque: uhandre
• Belarusian: трыто́н m (trytón)
• Breton: gweronell f
• Bulgarian: дъждо́вник (bg) m (dǎždóvnik), трито́н m (tritón)
• Burmese: please add this translation if you can
• Catalan: tritó m
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 蠑螈／蝾螈 (wing⁴ jyun⁴)

  Mandarin: 蠑螈／蝾螈 (zh) (róngyuán)

• Czech: mlok (cs) m, čolek (cs) m
• Dutch: salamander (nl) m
• Erzya: ведьметьказ (veďmeťkaz)
• Esperanto: trituro
• Estonian: vesilik (et), triiton
• Finnish: vesilisko (fi)
• French: triton (fr) m
• Galician: tritón (gl) m
• Georgian: ტრიტონი (ṭriṭoni)
• German: Molch (de) m
• Greek: τρίτων (el) m (tríton)

  Ancient: κορδύλος m (kordúlos)

• Hebrew: טרִיטוֹן m (triton)
• Hindi: सरटिका f (sarṭikā)
• Hungarian: gőte (hu)
• Irish: niút m, earc m
• Italian: tritone (it) m
• Japanese: イモリ (ja) (imori), 井守 (ja) (いもり, imori), 蠑螈 (ja) (いもり, imori)
• Kazakh: тритон (triton)
• Khmer: please add this translation if you can
• Korean: 영원(蠑螈) (ko) (yeong'won)
• Kyrgyz: тритон (triton)
• Lao: please add this translation if you can
• Latin: stelliō m
• Latvian: tritons m
• Lithuanian: tritonas m
• Macedonian: до́ждовник m (dóždovnik)
• Norman: lêzarde dg'ieau f
• Persian: سمندرک (samandarak)
• Plautdietsch: Äajdakjsel m
• Polish: traszka (pl) f
• Portuguese: tritão (pt) m
• Romanian: triton (ro) m
• Russian: трито́н (ru) m (tritón), салама́ндра (ru) f (salamándra) (salamander)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: водењак m

  Roman: vodenjak (sh) m

• Slovak: mlok (sk) m
• Slovene: pupek (sl) m
• Spanish: tritón (es) m
• Swedish: vattenödla (sv) c
• Tagalog: triton
• Thai: นิวต์ (níu)
• Turkish: semender (tr)
• Turkmen: triton
• Ukrainian: трито́н m (trytón)
• Uzbek: triton (uz)
• Vietnamese: sa giông
• Volapük: (male or female) salmun
• Welsh: madfall ddŵr f

See also

• newt on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Wikipedia article on the indefinite articles a and an

Anagrams

• Went, twen, went