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Danish
Noun
tarmes c
- indefinite genitive plural of tarm
Latin
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *terh₁- (“to rub, rub by twisting, twist, turn”). Compare Ancient Greek τερηδών (terēdṓn, “woodworm”) and Lithuanian trandẽ (“maggot”).
Pronunciation
Noun
tarmes m (genitive tarmitis); third declension
- a worm that eats wood; a woodworm
Declension
Third-declension noun.
Descendants
References
- “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.