Termes

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

Termes m

1. A taxonomic genus within the family Termitidae.

• 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; Pterygota - subclass; Neoptera - infraclass; Polyneoptera - superorder; Isoptera - order; Termitidae - family; Termitinae - subfamily

• English: termes

• Termitidae on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Termitidae on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Category:Termitidae on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
• Termes at National Center for Biotechnology Information
• Termes at Integrated Taxonomic Information System.
• Termes at EPPO Global Database European and Mediterranean Plant Protection Organization
• Termes at Index to Organism Names

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• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈter.mes/, [ˈt̪ɛrmɛs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈter.mes/, [ˈt̪ɛrmes]

Termes n (indeclinable)

1. 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’

• Termestīnī
• Termestīnus

• French: Termès

• “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.

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• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈter.meːs/, [ˈt̪ɛrmeːs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈter.mes/, [ˈt̪ɛrmes]

Termēs f sg (genitive Termētis); third declension

1. a town in Ionia

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Third-declension noun, with locative, singular only.

• “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.

• termes, tremes