tarmes

tarmes c

1. indefinite genitive plural of tarm

• termes
• *tarmus (Vulgar Latin)

Despite an unusual suffix, apparently from Proto-Indo-European *terh₁- (“to rub, rub by twisting, twist, turn”), thereby cognate with Ancient Greek τερηδών (terēdṓn, “woodworm”) and possibly Lithuanian trandẽ (“maggot”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈtar.mɛs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈt̪ar.mes]

tarmes m (genitive tarmitis); third declension

1. a worm that eats wood; a woodworm

Third-declension noun.

• Vulgar Latin: *tărmus, *tărma
  • Italian: tarlo, tarma

• “tarmes”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• tarmes in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.