termes – Latin noun declension

Noun: termes
Hyphenation:

Gender: Masculine Declension: Third

Nominative

Singular	termes
Plural	termitēs

Genitive

Singular	termitis
Plural	termitum

Dative

Singular	termitī
Plural	termitibus

Accusative

Singular	termitem
Plural	termitēs

Ablative

Singular	termite
Plural	termitibus

Vocative

Singular	termes
Plural	termitēs

Sample Sentences

germinat et numquam fallentis termes olivae / suamque pulla ficus ornat arborem, (Where the shoots of the olive-trees bud, and are never failing, the dark fig graces the branch of its tree,) [c. 30 BCE, Horatius, Epodi 16.45]
Nam ‘poeniceus,’ quem tu Graece φοίνικα dixisti, noster est et ‘rutilus’ et ‘spadix,’ poenicei συνώνυμος, qui factus e Graeco noster est, exuberantiam splendoremque significant ruboris, quales sunt fructus palmae arboris non admodum sole incocti, unde spadici et poeniceo nomen est; enim Dorice vocant avulsum e palma termitem cum fructu.
For poeniceus, which you call φοῖνιξ in Greek, belongs to our language, and rutilus and spadix, a synonym of poeniceus which is taken over into Latin from the Greek, indicate a rich, gleaming shade of red like that of the fruit of the palm-tree when it is not fully ripened by the sun. And from this spadix and poeniceus get their name; for spadix in Doric is applied to a branch torn from a palm-tree along with its fruit. ― translation from the same source [ante''' AD 180, Aulus Gellius (author), John Carew Rolfe (editor and translator), Noctes Atticae in The Attic Nights of Aulus Gellius, with an English Translation (1927), book II, chapter xxvi, §§ 9–10]
Quem colorem nos, sicuti dixi, poeniceum dicimus, Graeci partim φοίνικα, alii σπάδικα appellant, quoniam palmae termes ex arbore cum fructu avulsus “spadix” dicitur.
This colour, as I have said, we call poeniceus; the Greeks sometimes name it φοῖνιξ, at others σπάδιξ, since the branch of the palm (φοῖνιξ), torn from the tree with its fruit, is called spadix. ― translation from the same source [ibidem, book III, chapter ix, § 9]

Nouns inflected like termes

antistes, abbacomes, caespes, praestes, dīves, eques, comes, fōmes, līmes, mīles, pedes, vēles, vicecomes, gurges, merges, caeles, cocles, circes, hospes, superstes, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)

Etymology

Traditionally derived from terō (“to rub away”), but unknown. Alternatively connected either with tener (“tender, young”) and Sabine terenum (“soft”), from Proto-Indo-European *ter- (“tender, soft, weak, young, small”), particularly if the original meaning was “weak branch” or “young shoot”, or according to Calvert Watkins with termen (“end”), if the original meaning was “end, tip” (compare the cognate Proto-Germanic *þrumą (“butt, end, stump”)), from Proto-Indo-European *térmn̥. Michiel de Vaan lists the word as without etymology. The odd suffix and semantic category may be indicative of substrate origin.

Verbs referencing "termes"

Swedish Nouns termit, Dutch Nouns termiet, Bulgarian Nouns термит, Catalan Nouns tèrmit.