tarmĕs — Lewis & Short
tarmĕs, ĭtis, m.root tero; Gr. tei/rw, to bore,
I a worm that eats wood, a woodworm, Plaut. Most. 3, 2, 140.—Written also termes, Isid. Orig. 12, 5, 10; Serv. Verg. G. 1, 256.
The corpus record — Latin
tarmes
tarmes · m
a worm that eats wood
Generated live from the audited Latin corpus — every figure on this page is a database query, not prose from memory.
Where it lives
- Mostellaria 1 · 1.04/10k
What it meant
In the wild
- tarmes Plautus, Mostellaria 3.2
Where it came from
No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.
Latin text and lemmatization derived from the Perseus Digital Library (canonical-latinLit), CC BY-SA 4.0. Lewis & Short (public domain) via Perseus. This derived data is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 license.