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

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

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

verme

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

verme

  1. worm

From Latin vermem, from Proto-Indo-European *wr̥mis.

verme m (plural vermi) (diminutives: vermicello, vermiciattolo)

  1. worm

verme m

  1. ablative singular of vermis

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

verme m (plural vérmens)

  1. worm

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

verme m

  1. worm

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

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

Borrowed from Latin vermis, due to lack of diphthongization.

verme m (plural vermes)

  1. (intestinal) worm

verme

  1. infinitive of ver combined with me

By surface analysis, ver- (“to give”) +‎ -me.

verme (definite accusative vermeyi, plural vermeler)

  1. verbal noun of vermek

By surface analysis, ver- (“to give”) +‎ -me.

verme

  1. second-person singular negative imperative of vermek