The corpus record — Latin

vermiculus

vermiculus · m

a little worm

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Where it lives

Naturalis Historia 30 · 0.76/10k
De Anima 1 · 0.42/10k
De Rerum Natura 2 · 0.41/10k
Res Rustica, Books I-IX 3 · 0.38/10k
Epistulae. Selections. 1 · 0.23/10k

What it meant

vermĭcŭlus — Lewis & Short

vermĭcŭlus, i, m.dim.vermis,

I a little worm, grub, in decaying things.

I Lit., Lucr. 2, 899; Plin. 10, 65, 85, § 186: in linguā canum, id. 29, 5, 32, § 100.—

II Transf.

A A disease of dogs which drives them mad, Grat. Cyn. 386.—

B In the Vulgate, the scarlet worm, for coccum (scarlet color), Vulg. Exod. 35, 25; cf. Hier. Ep. 64, 19: VERMICVLVM STRAVERVNT, Inscr. Orell. 4240; Inscr. Murat. p. 114, 2.

In the wild

vermiculorum Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 16.41
vermiculus Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 30.3.p2
vermiculorum Lucretius, De Rerum Natura 3.728
vermiculus Columella, Res Rustica, Books I-IX 7.5.11
vermiculos Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 20.11.p1
vermiculus Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 22.25.p1

6 of 37 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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