vermiculus

Latin

Etymology

Diminutive of vermis.

Noun

vermiculus m (genitive vermiculī); second declension

1. grub, larva

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	vermiculus	vermiculī
Genitive	vermiculī	vermiculōrum
Dative	vermiculō	vermiculīs
Accusative	vermiculum	vermiculōs
Ablative	vermiculō	vermiculīs
Vocative	vermicule	vermiculī

Descendants

• Aragonese: vermello
• Asturian: bermeyu, bermeichu, bermechu, bermiyu, berméu, mermechu, mermeichu, mermeyu, bermichu, mermichu
• Catalan: vermell
• Emilian: varméi, varmélli
• English: vermilion
• French: vermeil

• Galician: vermello
• Guinea-Bissau Creole: burmedju
• Italian: vermiglio
• Korlai Creole Portuguese: birmel
• Kristang: bremelu
• Mirandese: burmeilho
• Occitan: vermelh
• Old Galician-Portuguese: vermello

• Old Spanish: vermeio
  • Spanish: bermejo
• Piedmontese: vermej
• Portuguese: vermelho, vermículo (borrowing)

References

• “vermiculus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• vermiculus 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)
• vermiculus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.