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English
Etymology
From Latin terēdō (“woodworm”), from Ancient Greek τερηδών (terēdṓn, “wood-worm”). Compare Ancient Greek: τέρην (térēn, “smooth, gentle”).
Pronunciation
Noun
teredo (plural teredos or teredoes)
- (zoology) A mollusc of the genus Teredo, especially the shipworm, Teredo navalis.
1791, Erasmus Darwin, The Economy of Vegetation, J. Johnson, page 123:Meet fell Tᴇʀᴇᴅᴏ, as he mines the keel / With beaked head, and break his lips of steel […] .
1887, Harriet W. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 272:No timber that would stand the exposure to water as well as the ravages of white ants and the teredo, could be found.
Translations
Latin
Etymology
From Ancient Greek τερηδών (terēdṓn, “woodworm”).
Pronunciation
Noun
terēdō f (genitive terēdinis); third declension
- woodworm, boring-worm, wood-fretter
- moth
Declension
Third-declension noun.
Descendants
References
- “teredo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “teredo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- teredo in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- teredo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.