teredo

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English

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Etymology

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From Latin terēdō (woodworm), from Ancient Greek τερηδών (terēdṓn, wood-worm). Compare Ancient Greek: τέρην (térēn, smooth, gentle).

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Noun

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teredo (plural teredos or teredoes)

  1. (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.

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Latin

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Etymology

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From Ancient Greek τερηδών (terēdṓn, woodworm).

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Noun

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terēdō f (genitive terēdinis); third declension

  1. woodworm, boring-worm, wood-fretter
  2. moth

Declension

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Third-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative terēdō terēdinēs
Genitive terēdinis terēdinum
Dative terēdinī terēdinibus
Accusative terēdinem terēdinēs
Ablative terēdine terēdinibus
Vocative terēdō terēdinēs

Descendants

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References

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  • 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.