termes – English noun declension

English noun forms of termes

Noun: termes
Singulartermes
Pluraltermites

Sample Sentences

  • These turret nests, built by two different species of Termites. [1781, Henry Smeathman, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, LXXI, page 160:]
  • The termes, or what is called the white ant, infests this island. [1800, The Asiatic Annual Register, page 5/2:]
  • The termes of South Africa is not the destructive species. [1834, Thomas Pringle, chapter VIII, in African Sketches, page 287:]

Nouns inflected like termes

eques, fomes, limes, vicecomes, termes, stipes,

Etymology

From the translingual Termes (genus name), from Late Latin termes, late variant of Classical Latin tarmes (“woodworm”). See: Latin Nouns 'tarmes'.