Termes

See also: termes and termés

Translingual

From the Late Latin termes, late variant of the Classical Latin tarmes (“woodworm”), used by Linnaeus.

Termes m

Termites are not well described. This genus name has been used to include a large number of termites, not necessarily properly associated with the genus as described by Linnaeus.

(genus): Eukaryota - superkingdom; Animalia - kingdom; Bilateria - subkingdom; Protostomia - infrakingdom; Ecdysozoa - superphylum; Arthropoda - phylum; Hexapoda - subphylum; Insecta - class; Dicondylia - clade; Pterygota - subclass; Metapterygota - clade; Neoptera - infraclass; Polyneoptera - supercohort; Dictyoptera - cohort; Isoptera - order; Termitidae - family; Termitinae - subfamily

terms derived from Termes

Termes n (indeclinable)

Lerma (a town in Hispania Tarraconensis)
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Florus to this entry?)
- AD 77–79, Gaius Plinius Secundus (author), Karl Friedrich Theodor Mayhoff (editor), Naturalis Historia (1906), book III, chapter xvii:
  arevacis nomen dedit fluvius areva. horum vi oppida, secontia et vxama, quae nomina crebro aliis in locis usurpantur, praeterea segovia et nova augusta, termes ipsaque clunia, celtiberiae finis.
  The river Areva gives its name to the Arevaci; of whom there are six towns, Segontia and Uxama, names which are frequently given to other places, as also Segovia and Nova Augusta, Termes, and Clunia itself, the frontier of Celtiberia. ― translation from: John Bostock and Henry Thomas Riley, The Natural History (1855), book III: “An Account of Countries, Nations, Seas, Towns, Havens, Mountains, Rivers, Distances, and Peoples Who Now Exist or Formerly Existed”, chapter iv (iii): ‘Of Nearer Spain’

Termes³ in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
Termes² in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

Termēs f (genitive Termētis); third declension

a town in Ionia
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Third declension, with locative.

Termes³ in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
Termēs³ in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

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