tarmes

Danish

Noun

tarmes c

1. indefinite genitive plural of tarm

Latin

Alternative forms

• termes
• *tarmus (Vulgar Latin)

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *terh₁- (“to rub, rub by twisting, twist, turn”). Compare Ancient Greek τερηδών (terēdṓn, “woodworm”) and Lithuanian trandẽ (“maggot”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈtar.mes/, [ˈt̪ärmɛs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈtar.mes/, [ˈt̪ärmes]

Noun

tarmes m (genitive tarmitis); third declension

1. a worm that eats wood; a woodworm

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	tarmes	tarmitēs
genitive	tarmitis	tarmitum
dative	tarmitī	tarmitibus
accusative	tarmitem	tarmitēs
ablative	tarmite	tarmitibus
vocative	tarmes	tarmitēs

Descendants

• Italian: tarlo, tarma

References

• “tarmes”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• tarmes in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.