vermis
English edit
Etymology edit
From Latin vermis (“worm”). Doublet of worm.
Noun edit
vermis (plural vermes)
- (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.
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Verb edit
vermis
- inflection of vermissen:
Latin edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Indo-European *wr̥mis.[1] Cognate with Proto-Germanic *wurmiz (“worm; snake”).
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈu̯er.mis/, [ˈu̯ɛrmɪs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈver.mis/, [ˈvɛrmis]
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Noun edit
vermis m (genitive vermis); third declension
Declension edit
Third-declension noun (i-stem).
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | vermis | vermēs |
| Genitive | vermis | vermium |
| Dative | vermī | vermibus |
| Accusative | vermem | vermēs vermīs |
| Ablative | verme | vermibus |
| Vocative | vermis | vermēs |
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- Aromanian: yermu, ierm, iermu
- Asturian: viérbene, vierbe, viermo, berbene
- Corsican: vermu, varmu, varme, gialmu
- Esperanto: vermo
- Friulian: vier
- Galician: verme
- Gascon: bermi (Béarnese)
- Istro-Romanian: l'erm, gl'erm
- Italian: verme, vermine (Tuscan)
- Megleno-Romanian: ghermi, ghiarmi, varmi
- Lombard: vermen
- Neapolitan: vermene
- Occitan: vèrm, vèrme
- Old Catalan: verme
- Catalan: verm
- Old French: verm
- French: ver
- Old Galician-Portuguese: vermem
- Portuguese: verme
- Old Spanish: vierme, viermen, vierven
- Piedmontese: verm
- Romagnol: virman
- Romanian: vierme
- Romansch: verm, vierm
- Sardinian: berme, merme, gremi, brèmmini
- Sicilian: vemmu, vermu, vermi
- Venetian: vermo, verme
- Walloon: varme
- → English: vermin, vermis
- → Spanish: verme
References edit
- ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008), “vermis”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 665
- 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.
Further reading edit
- “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