verme

See also: věřme

Galician

Etymology

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

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

• Seoane, Ernesto Xosé González; Granja, María Álvarez de la; Agrelo, Ana Isabel Boullón (2006–2022), “vermen”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval [Dictionary of dictionaries of Medieval Galician] (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
• vermine
• verme solitario

Latin

Noun

verme m

1. ablative singular of vermis

Old Catalan

Etymology

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

Noun

verme m (plural vérmens)

1. worm

References

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

Old Occitan

Etymology

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

Noun

verme m

1. worm

Descendants

• Occitan: vèrme

References

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

Portuguese

Etymology

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

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/
  • (Caipira) IPA^(key): /ˈvɛɻ.mi/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈvɛʁ.me/ [ˈvɛɦ.me]

 

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈvɛɾ.mɨ/

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

• Audio (Brazil (Caipira)):

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• Rhymes: (Brazil) -ɛʁmi, (Portugal) -ɛɾmɨ
• Hyphenation: ver‧me

Noun

verme m (plural vermes)

1. worm
   • 1899, Machado de Assis, chapter XVII, in Dom Casmurro, Rio de Janeiro: H. Garnier, Livreiro-Editor, page 50:

     — Meu senhor, respondeu-me um longo verme gordo, nós não sabemos absolutamente 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

Further reading

• “verme”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “verme”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

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 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025

Turkish

Etymology

ver- +‎ -me

Noun

verme (definite accusative vermeyi, plural vermeler)

1. verbal noun of vermek

Declension

Declension of verme

	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