verme

Galician

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese vermen, vermẽẽ (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Latin vermis, vermem (“worm”), from Proto-Indo-European *wr̥mis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):

Noun

verme m (plural vermes)

1. worm; maggot

   Synonyms: becho, coco

   • 1862, Manuel Magariños, Ferrocarril Compostelano:

     Non sei qué xuncras traguía na moleira o Seor Pedro, que o vin no outro onte carreirando, como un neno, e axuntando aos seus veciños, pra que onde ao seu palleiro fosen axiña a agoardá-lo; Eu non sei si un formigueiro de vermes lle boligaban entre os miolos dos sesos, pois semellaba a un doente, pro casi arrincando os pelos de debaixo da monteira, sin ton, nin son, e sin xeito; Eu non sei qué lle proía, eu non sei, si tiña o demo; porque os folgos eran fogos e os ollos dous candeeiros, e a cara toda prigada, amostrando os seus chavellos coa boca de un palmo aberta, babexado o fuciñeiro, parecía un estraloxe, un estraloxe de un vello

     I don't know what damned thing was bringing in his head Mr. Pedro, whom I saw the day before yesterday running around, as a kid, and gathering his neighbours asking them to come promptly to his barn and wait for him; I don't know if a colony of worms was scampering around the center of his brains, because he looked as a madman, almost pulling out the hair from under the hat, without rhyme of reason, and without care; I don't know what was itching him, I don't know if he was possessed by a demon; because his breath was fire and the eyes two lamps, and the face all folded, showing his fangs with mouth open wide, the snout drooling; he looked as a ravel, an old man's ravel

Derived terms

• verme canteiro
• vermioso

Related terms

• vermello

References

• “vermen” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
• “verme” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “verme” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “verme” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Hungarian

Etymology

verem (“pit”) +‎ -e (“his/her/its”, possessive suffix)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):
• Hyphenation: ver‧me

Noun

verme

1. third-person singular single-possession possessive of verem

Declension

Interlingua

Noun

verme

1. worm

Italian

Etymology

From Latin vermem, from Proto-Indo-European *wr̥mis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈvɛr.me/
• Rhymes: -ɛrme
• Hyphenation: vèr‧me

Noun

verme m (plural vermi) (diminutives: vermicello, vermiciattolo)

1. worm

Related terms

• vermicelli
• verme solitario

Latin

Noun

verme m

1. ablative singular of vermis

Portuguese

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese vermen, vermẽe, from Latin vermis (“worm”), from Proto-Indo-European *wr̥mis (“worm”).

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: ver‧me

Noun

verme m (plural vermes)

1. worm
   • 1899, Machado de Assis, Dom Casmurro:

     — Meu senhor, respondeu-me um longo verme gordo, nós não sabemos nada dos textos que roemos, nem escolhemos o que roemos, nem amamos ou detestamos o que roemos: nós roemos.

     "Sir, a fat worm replied to me, we know nothing about the texts we gnaw, nor do we choose what we gnaw, nor do we love or hate what we gnaw: we gnaw."

2. parasite

Derived terms

• buraco de verme

See also

• minhoca

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbeɾme/
• Rhymes: -eɾme
• Syllabification: ver‧me

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin vermis, due to lack of diphthongization.

Noun

verme m (plural vermes)

1. (intestinal) worm

Etymology 2

Verb

verme

1. infinitive of ver combined with me

Further reading

• “verme”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

Turkish

Etymology

ver- +‎ -me

Noun

verme (definite accusative vermeyi, plural vermeler)

1. verbal noun of vermek

Declension

Verb

verme

1. second-person singular negative imperative of vermek