verme

From Old Galician-Portuguese vermen, vermẽẽ (13th c., Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Proto-Romance *verminem, from Latin vermis. Compare Portuguese verme.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbɛɾme/ [ˈbɛɾ.mɪ]
• Rhymes: -ɛɾme
• Hyphenation: ver‧me

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

• verme canteiro
• vermioso

• vermello

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “vermen”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “verme”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “verme”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “verme”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

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

• IPA^(key): [ˈvɛrmɛ]
• Hyphenation: ver‧me

verme

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

verme

1. worm

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

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

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

1. worm

• vermicelli
• vermine
• verme solitario

verme m

1. ablative singular of vermis

Inherited from Proto-Romance *verminem, from Latin vermis.

verme m (plural vérmens)

1. worm

• Joan Coromines (1980–1991) “verm”, in Diccionari etimològic i complementari de la llengua catalana, Barcelona: Curial Edicions Catalanes

Inherited from Proto-Romance *verminem, from Latin vermis. Possibly also directly from the latter.

verme m

1. worm

• Occitan: vèrme

• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “vermis”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volume 14: U–Z, page 296

From Old Galician-Portuguese vermen, vermẽe, from Proto-Romance *verminem, from Latin vermis.

• Hyphenation: ver‧me

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

• buraco de verme

• minhoca

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

Borrowed from Latin vermis, due to lack of diphthongization.

verme m (plural vermes)

1. (intestinal) worm

verme

1. infinitive of ver combined with me

• “verme”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024

ver- +‎ -me

verme (definite accusative vermeyi, plural vermeler)

1. verbal noun of vermek

verme

1. second-person singular negative imperative of vermek