termes

See also: Termes and termés

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈtɜːmiːz/

Noun

termes (plural termites)

1. A termite.
   • 1781, Henry Smeathman, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, LXXI, page 160:

     These turret nests, built by two different species of Termites.

   • 1800, The Asiatic Annual Register, page 5/2:

     The termes, or what is called the white ant, infests this island.

   • 1834, Thomas Pringle, chapter VIII, in African Sketches, page 287:

     The termes of South Africa is not the destructive species.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:termes.

Derived terms

• termite

Translations

a termite — see termite

References

• “‖Termes” on page 203/2 of § 2 (T–Th, ed. James Augustus Henry Murray) of part ii (Su–Th) of volume IX (Si–Th, 1919) of A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles (1st ed.)
• “‖termes” in the Oxford English Dictionary (2nd ed., 1989)

Anagrams

• meters, metres, restem, Emerts, Mester, Tesmer, merest, mester, Mestre, S meter

Catalan

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈter.məs]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈteɾ.mes]

Noun

termes

1. plural of terme

French

Pronunciation

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Noun

termes m

1. plural of terme

Anagrams

• mestre, mètres, remets

Galician

Verb

termes

1. second-person singular present subjunctive of termar