vermiculus
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Latin[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Diminutive of vermis (“worm”).
Noun[edit]
vermiculus m (genitive vermiculī); second declension
- a little worm or grub in decaying things.
- a disease of dogs which drives them mad.
- (Late Latin) the scarlet worm for coccum (“scarlet color”).
Declension[edit]
Second-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | vermiculus | vermiculī |
Genitive | vermiculī | vermiculōrum |
Dative | vermiculō | vermiculīs |
Accusative | vermiculum | vermiculōs |
Ablative | vermiculō | vermiculīs |
Vocative | vermicule | vermiculī |
Derived terms[edit]
Descendants[edit]
- Aragonese: vermello
- Asturian: bermeyu, bermeichu, bermechu, bermiyu, berméu, mermechu, mermeichu, mermeyu, bermichu, mermichu
- Catalan: vermell
- Emilian: varméi, varmélli
- Italian: vermiglio
- Mirandese: burmeilho
- Old French: vermeil, vermail, vermoil
- Old Galician-Portuguese: vermelho
- Old Occitan: vermelh
- Occitan: vermelh
- Old Spanish: vermejo, uermego, uermeio, vermeio, vermello
- Spanish: bermejo
- Piedmontese: vermej
- Borrowings:
References[edit]
- “vermiculus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- vermiculus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- vermiculus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.