worm
worm
subs.
P. εὐλή, ἡ (Hdt. and Aristotle).
Creeping thing: P. and V. ἑρπετόν, τό.
subs.
P. εὐλή, ἡ (Hdt. and Aristotle).
Creeping thing: P. and V. ἑρπετόν, τό.
worm
v. trans.
Worm one’s way into: Ar. and P. εἰσδύ̄εσθαι (εἰς, acc.); see steal into.
Worm one’s way into a person’s favour: P. and V. ὑ̆ποτρέχειν (τινά), ὑ̆πέρχεσθαι (τινά).
v. trans.
Worm one’s way into: Ar. and P. εἰσδύ̄εσθαι (εἰς, acc.); see steal into.
Worm one’s way into a person’s favour: P. and V. ὑ̆ποτρέχειν (τινά), ὑ̆πέρχεσθαι (τινά).
WORM
PROP. vermis (general term); diminutive vermiculus (Plin.): curculio (in grain): tinea (that eats books clothes etc.): teredo (that eats wood clothes etc.); (vermis) lumbricus (Celsus); *lumbricus teres (Linn.; in the human body): the worms (as a disease) verminatio: to have worms verminare: full of worms verminosus (Plin.). [Vid: also GLOW-WORM SILK-WORM.]
Figuratively. Ligament under a dog’s tongue vermiculus; lytta (Plin.): to cut out this worm lyttam exsecare.
The thread of a screw Greek περικόχλιον (no term in Latin).
Anything tormenting aegritudo animum exedens (of grief); morsus stimuli cruciatus (conscientiae).
PROP. vermis (general term); diminutive vermiculus (Plin.): curculio (in grain): tinea (that eats books clothes etc.): teredo (that eats wood clothes etc.); (vermis) lumbricus (Celsus); *lumbricus teres (Linn.; in the human body): the worms (as a disease) verminatio: to have worms verminare: full of worms verminosus (Plin.). [Vid: also GLOW-WORM SILK-WORM.]
Figuratively. Ligament under a dog’s tongue vermiculus; lytta (Plin.): to cut out this worm lyttam exsecare.
The thread of a screw Greek περικόχλιον (no term in Latin).
Anything tormenting aegritudo animum exedens (of grief); morsus stimuli cruciatus (conscientiae).
worm (subs.):
I. The animal:
1. vermis, is, m.: you may see live w.s produced from decaying dung, videre licet vivos existere vermes stercore de taetro, Lucr. 2, 871: earth-w.s, vermes terreni, Plin. 18, 17, 45: where their w. dieth not, ubi vermis non moritur, Vulg. Mark ix. 44.
2. vermĭcŭlus (little w.): these substances, when decaying, produce w.s, haec quum sunt putrefacta vermiculos pariunt, Lucr. 2, 899.
3. lumbrīcus: that they may search the marsh and dig up w.s, ut rimentur paludem effodiantque lumbricos, Col. 7, 9: get away, you w., who have just crept out from beneath the earth, foras, lumbrice, qui sub terra erepsisti modo. Pl. Aul. 4, 4, 1: w.s (intestinal) hurt calves, solent vitulis nocere lumbrici, Col. 6, 30.
4. curcŭlio, ōnis, m. (corn-w.): the w. destroys the heap of corn, populat farris acervum curculio, Virg. G. 1, 185.
5. tĭnea (small w. that destroys books, wood, etc.): Virg.: Hor.: Col.: intestinal w.: Plin.
6. tĕrēdo, ĭnis, f. (the boring w.): the ship destroyed by the secret w., occulta vitiata teredine navis, Ov. Pont. 1, 1, 69.
II. A disease under a dog's tongue, supposed to be caused by a w.: vermiculus, lytta: Plin.
III. The w. of a screw: *spira cochleae; the Gr. περικόχλιον. Phr.: the w.s, a disease, vermĭnātio: Plin.: to have the w.s, verminare: Sen.: full of w.s, verminosus, Plin.
I. The animal:
1. vermis, is, m.: you may see live w.s produced from decaying dung, videre licet vivos existere vermes stercore de taetro, Lucr. 2, 871: earth-w.s, vermes terreni, Plin. 18, 17, 45: where their w. dieth not, ubi vermis non moritur, Vulg. Mark ix. 44.
2. vermĭcŭlus (little w.): these substances, when decaying, produce w.s, haec quum sunt putrefacta vermiculos pariunt, Lucr. 2, 899.
3. lumbrīcus: that they may search the marsh and dig up w.s, ut rimentur paludem effodiantque lumbricos, Col. 7, 9: get away, you w., who have just crept out from beneath the earth, foras, lumbrice, qui sub terra erepsisti modo. Pl. Aul. 4, 4, 1: w.s (intestinal) hurt calves, solent vitulis nocere lumbrici, Col. 6, 30.
4. curcŭlio, ōnis, m. (corn-w.): the w. destroys the heap of corn, populat farris acervum curculio, Virg. G. 1, 185.
5. tĭnea (small w. that destroys books, wood, etc.): Virg.: Hor.: Col.: intestinal w.: Plin.
6. tĕrēdo, ĭnis, f. (the boring w.): the ship destroyed by the secret w., occulta vitiata teredine navis, Ov. Pont. 1, 1, 69.
II. A disease under a dog's tongue, supposed to be caused by a w.: vermiculus, lytta: Plin.
III. The w. of a screw: *spira cochleae; the Gr. περικόχλιον. Phr.: the w.s, a disease, vermĭnātio: Plin.: to have the w.s, verminare: Sen.: full of w.s, verminosus, Plin.
worm (v.): Phr.: to w. out of any one (a secret or the like ), *extorquere, elicere: to w. one's way in, insinuare se, irrepere: when he had w.'d his way into an intimacy with him, quum se ejus in familiaritatem insinuasset, Cic. Caec. 5, 13: to w. their way into the register, irrepere in tabulas, id. Arch. 5, 10.