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vermis

worm, maggot

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Where it lives

Ad Scapulam 1 · 6.7/10k
Hamartigenia 2 · 3.13/10k
Commodus Antoninus 1 · 2.89/10k
Epigrammata Ausonii de diversis rebus 1 · 2.74/10k
De Anima 3 · 1.26/10k
Epistularum 1 · 1.1/10k
De Carne Christi 1 · 1.05/10k
Naturalis Historia 39 · 0.98/10k
Adversus Judaeos Liber 1 · 0.89/10k
De Rerum Natura 4 · 0.82/10k
Res Rustica, Books I-IX 6 · 0.76/10k
De agri cultura 1 · 0.64/10k

Densest 12 of 20 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

1. vermis — de Vaan

vermis 'worm, maggot' [m. /] (Cato+) Derivatives: vermiculus * larva, maggot' (LuciL+), vermiculatus 'arranged to give a wavy effect' (Lucil.+). Pit. *wormi- 'snake, worm'. PIE *urmi- 'snake, worm'. IE cognates: Go. waurms [m.] 'snake', OIc. ormr, OE wyrrn, OFr. wirm 'snake', OS wormo, OHG wurm [m.] 'worm' < PGm. *wurmaii-. It is striking that other branches of IE continue a form *kwrmi- 'worm': Olr. cruim, MW pryfy … — [de Vaan, s.v. vermis, p. 679]

2. vermis — Lewis & Short

vermis, is, m.Gr. e(/lmis; cf. Sanscr. krmis, worm; Goth. vaùrms, serpent,

I a worm, Lucr. 2, 871; 2, 928; 3, 719; 3, 723; Plin. 18, 17, 45, § 159; 24, 5, 11, § 18; 30, 13, 39, § 114; Col. 6, 30 fin.

In the wild

vermibus Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 24.5.p3
vermium Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 9.57
vermibus Lucretius, De Rerum Natura 3.723
vermes Prudentius, Hamartigenia 1.828
vermibus Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 10.71.p1
vermes Cato, De agri cultura 162

6 of 73 attestations shown.

Where it came from

de Vaan, Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Brill 2008) Treated in de Vaan, Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Brill 2008) s.v. vermis (scan pp. 679-680; entry #1953). Root candidates: *wormi-, *urmi-, *wurmaii-.
Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine Treated in Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine s.v. uermis (scan p. 748; entry #12492).

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