Newt

,

Noun.

[OE.

ewt

,

evete

, AS.

efete

, with

n

prefixed,

an ewt

being understood as

a newt

. Cf.

Eft

.]

(Zool.)

Any one of several species of small aquatic salamanders. The common British species are the crested newt (

Triton cristatus

) and the smooth newt (

Lophinus punctatus

). In America,

Diemictylus viridescens

is one of the most abundant species.

Newt

NEWT

,

Noun.

A small lizard; an eft.

newt

English

A male smooth newt (Lissotriton vulgaris)

Noun

newt ‎(plural newts)

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

Translations

type of salamander

Albanian: triton m
Arabic: سَمَنْدَل m ‎(samandal)
Armenian: տրիտոն (hy) ‎(triton)
Azeri: triton, səməndər
Belarusian: трыто́н m ‎(trytón)
Bulgarian: трито́н m ‎(tritón)
Burmese:
Catalan: tritó m
Chinese:

Cantonese: 蠑螈, 蝾螈 ‎(wing⁴ jyun⁴)

Mandarin: 蠑螈 (zh), 蝾螈 (zh) ‎(róngyuán)
Czech: mlok (cs) m, čolek (cs) m
Dutch: salamander (nl) m
Erzya: ведьметьказ ‎(vedʹmetʹkaz)
Estonian: vesilik, triiton
Finnish: vesilisko (fi)
French: triton (fr) m
Galician: tritón m
Georgian: ტრიტონი ‎(ṭriṭoni)
German: Molch (de) m
Greek: τρίτων (el) m ‎(tríton)
Hebrew: טרִיטוֹן m ‎(triton)
Hindi: सरटिका f ‎(sarṭikā)
Hungarian: gőte (hu)
Japanese: イモリ ‎(imori), 井守 (ja) ‎(いもり, imori), 蠑螈 ‎(いもり, imori)
Norman: lêzarde dg'ieau f
Kazakh: тритон ‎(trïton)

Khmer:
Korean: 영원 (ko) ‎(yeong-won) (蠑螈)
Kyrgyz: тритон ‎(triton)
Lao:
Latvian: tritons m
Lithuanian: tritonas m
Macedonian: до́ждовник m ‎(dóždovnik)
Persian: سمندرک ‎(samandarak)
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 m
Slovene: pupek (sl) m
Spanish: tritón (es) m
Swedish: vattenödla c
Tagalog: triton
Thai: นิวต์ ‎(niw)
Turkish: semender (tr)
Turkmen: triton
Ukrainian: трито́н m ‎(trytón)
Uzbek: triton (uz)
Vietnamese: sa giông
Volapük: (male or female) salmun
Welsh: madfall ddŵr f

Related terms

pissed as a newt

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