Etymograph

English

termes

Termes comes from Latin tarmes ‘woodworm’.

  1. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEtarmes‘woodworm’
  2. Late Latinc. 200–600 CEtermes
  3. mulmodernTermes
  4. Englishearliest quotation 1781termes

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor

Earlier history uncertain.

Lineage

  1. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEtarmes‘woodworm’
  2. Late Latinc. 200–600 CEtermes
  3. mulmodernTermes
  4. Englishearliest quotation 1781termes

Earliest quotation: 1781, Henry Smeathman, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society: “These turret nests, built by two different species of…”.

Linked words

through Proto-Indo-European *terh₁- ‘to rub, rub by twisting, twist, turn’

turn, throw, thread, tournament, tragic, threshold, trout, detrimental, tyrone, detour, attrition, thrash, tourney, detriment, triage, tribulation, detritus, tourniquet, trite, truant, tyro, thresh, derma, 41 more

through Latin tarmes ‘woodworm’

termite

Today it means

noun A termite.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

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