vermine

vermine

1. Obsolete form of vermin.

Inherited from Old French vermine, from verm + -ine, or possibly a Vulgar Latin *verminum, from Latin vermis (“worm”).

vermine f (uncountable)

1. vermin (destructive creatures)
2. vermin (a contemptible person)

• vermineux

• “vermine”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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vermine

1. inflection of verminen:
   1. first-person singular present
   2. first/third-person singular subjunctive I
   3. singular imperative

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈvɛr.mi.ne/
• Rhymes: -ɛrmine
• Hyphenation: vèr‧mi‧ne

vermine m (plural vermini) (regional)

1. worm

   Synonym: verme

• AIS: Sprach- und Sachatlas Italiens und der Südschweiz [Linguistic and Ethnographic Atlas of Italy and Southern Switzerland] – map 457: “il lombrico” – on navigais-web.pd.istc.cnr.it
• vermine in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “vermis”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volume 14: U–Z, page 297

vermine

1. alternative form of vermyn

• vermin

From verm + -ine, or possibly a Vulgar Latin *verminum, from Latin vermis (“worm”).

vermine oblique singular, f (oblique plural vermines, nominative singular vermine, nominative plural vermines)

1. vermin (any disliked creatures)

• French: vermine
• → Middle English: vermyn, vermayne, vermine, vermyne
  • English: vermin, varmint
  • Scots: vermin, vermil