verme

See also: věřme

Galician

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

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

• 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

Hungarian

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

Noun

verme

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

Declension

Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, front unrounded harmony)
	singular	plural
nominative	verme	—
accusative	vermét	—
dative	vermének	—
instrumental	vermével	—
causal-final	verméért	—
translative	vermévé	—
terminative	verméig	—
essive-formal	vermeként	—
essive-modal	verméül	—
inessive	vermében	—
superessive	vermén	—
adessive	verménél	—
illative	vermébe	—
sublative	vermére	—
allative	verméhez	—
elative	verméből	—
delative	verméről	—
ablative	vermétől	—
non-attributive possessive - singular	verméé	—
non-attributive possessive - plural	vermééi	—

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

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈvɛʁ.mi/ [ˈvɛɦ.mi]

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈvɛʁ.mi/ [ˈvɛɦ.mi]
  • (São Paulo) IPA^(key): /ˈvɛɾ.mi/
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /ˈvɛʁ.mi/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈvɛɻ.me/

 

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈvɛɾ.mɨ/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈvɛɾ.mɨ/
  • (Northern Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈbɛɾ.mɨ/

• 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/ [ˈbeɾ.me]
• 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 [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10

Turkish

Etymology

ver- +‎ -me

Noun

verme (definite accusative vermeyi, plural vermeler)

1. verbal noun of vermek

Declension

Inflection
Nominative	verme
Definite accusative	vermeyi
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	verme	vermeler
Definite accusative	vermeyi	vermeleri
Dative	vermeye	vermelere
Locative	vermede	vermelerde
Ablative	vermeden	vermelerden
Genitive	vermenin	vermelerin

Verb

verme

1. second-person singular negative imperative of vermek