The corpus record — Latin

vermĭna

vermĭna · n

the gripes

Generated live from the audited Latin corpus — every figure on this page is a database query, not prose from memory.

What it meant

1. vermĭna — Lewis & Short

vermĭna, um, n.vermis, gripings of the belly caused by worms; hence, in gen.,

I the gripes, belly-ache, stomach-ache.

I Lit.: saeva, Lucr. 5, 997; cf.: vermina dicuntur dolores corporis cum quodam minuto motu quasi a vermibus scindatur. Hic dolor Graece stro/fos dicitur, Fest. p. 375 Müll. —*

II Trop.: passionum, Arn. 1, p. 30.

2. vermina — Walde–Hofmann

vermina, -örum n. „das Bauchgrimmmen, Leibschneiden“ (Fest. p.375, Lucr., Arnob.), verminö, -äre ,kribbeln, jucken^ (seit Sen.; verminätiö, -önis f. „Würmerkrankheit; juckender Schmerz“, seit Sen): für Anknüpfung an vermis als „Grimmen infolge von Würmern“ (Fest. a. O., Vaniéek 54, Stolz HG. 1 500, Wissowa Rel.? 55*, Falk-Torp 604; bei Lucr. 5, 997 vermina nicht ,Leibschmerzen", sondern , Würmer* nach Arnaldi RFCI. … — [Walde–Hofmann, s.v. vermina, p. 1667]

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.

Downloads

Word record (JSON)·Concordance (CSV)·Frequencies (CSV)·Cite (BibTeX)

CC BY 4.0 with receipt attribution — every file carries its license line. What is exportable

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.