vermis

From Latin vermis (“worm”), from Proto-Italic *wormis, from Proto-Indo-European *wr̥mis. Doublet of worm.

vermis (plural vermes)

1. (anatomy) A narrow, worm-like structure found in animal brains between the hemispheres of the cerebellum; it is the site of termination of the spinocerebellar pathways that carry subconscious proprioception.

• verism

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vermis

1. inflection of vermissen:
   1. first-person singular present indicative
   2. (in case of inversion) second-person singular present indicative
   3. imperative

From Proto-Italic *wormis, from Proto-Indo-European *wr̥mis (“worm”).^[1] Cognate with Proto-Germanic *wurmiz (“worm; snake”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈwɛr.mɪs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈvɛr.mis]

vermis m (genitive vermis); third declension

1. a worm

   Synonym: lumbrīcus

Third-declension noun (i-stem).

• vermiculus

• “vermis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “vermis”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Meyer-Lübke, Wilhelm (1911), “vĕrmis”, in Romanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), page 704
• Seidl, Christian. 1995. Le système acasuel des protoromans ibérique et sarde: Dogmes et fait. Vox Romanica 54. Page. 61.

Borrowed from French vermis.

vermis n (uncountable)

1. vermis

• vermis in Academia Română, Micul dicționar academic, ediția a II-a, Bucharest: Univers Enciclopedic, 2010. →ISBN