vermis

From Latin vermis (“worm”). Doublet of worm.

vermis (plural vermes)

1. (anatomy) A narrow, worm-like structure found in animal brains between the hemispheres of the cerebellum; it is the site of termination of the spinocerebellar pathways that carry subconscious proprioception.

• verism

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vermis

1. inflection of vermissen:
   1. first-person singular present indicative
   2. (in case of inversion) second-person singular present indicative
   3. imperative

From Proto-Indo-European *wr̥mis.^[1] Cognate with Proto-Germanic *wurmiz (“worm; snake”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈu̯er.mis/, [ˈu̯ɛrmɪs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈver.mis/, [ˈvɛrmis]

vermis m (genitive vermis); third declension

1. a worm

   Synonym: lumbrīcus

Third-declension noun (i-stem).

• vermiculus

• Meyer-Lübke, Wilhelm (1911) “vĕrmis”, in Romanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), page 704
• Seidl, Christian. 1995. Le système acasuel des protoromans ibérique et sarde: Dogmes et fait. Vox Romanica 54. Page. 61.

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