vermiculus
Latin
Etymology
From vermis (“worm”) + -culus (forming diminutives).
Noun
vermiculus m (genitive vermiculī); second declension
- a little worm or grub in decaying things.
- a disease of dogs which drives them mad.
- (Late Latin) the scarlet worm for coccum (“scarlet color”).
Declension
Second-declension noun.
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | vermiculus | vermiculī |
| genitive | vermiculī | vermiculōrum |
| dative | vermiculō | vermiculīs |
| accusative | vermiculum | vermiculōs |
| ablative | vermiculō | vermiculīs |
| vocative | vermicule | vermiculī |
Derived terms
Descendants
- Aragonese: vermello
- Asturian: bermeyu, bermeichu, bermechu, bermiyu, berméu, mermechu, mermeichu, mermeyu, bermichu, mermichu
- Catalan: vermell
- Emilian: varméi, varmélli
- Italian: vermiglio
- Mirandese: burmeilho
- Old French: vermeil, vermail, vermoil
- Old Galician-Portuguese: vermelho
- Old Occitan: vermelh
- Occitan: vermelh
- Old Spanish: vermejo, uermego, uermeio, vermeio, vermello (non-standardized spellings)
- Spanish: bermejo
- Piedmontese: vermej
- Borrowings:
References
- “vermiculus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- "vermiculus", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- “vermiculus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.