vermiculus

Latin

Diminutive of vermis (“worm”).

vermiculus m (genitive vermiculī); second declension

a little worm or grub in decaying things.
1. a disease of dogs which drives them mad.
2. (Late Latin) the scarlet worm for coccum (“scarlet color”).

Second-declension noun.

Aragonese: vermello
Asturian: bermeyu, bermeichu, bermechu, bermiyu, berméu, mermechu, mermeichu, mermeyu, bermichu, mermichu
Catalan: vermell
Emilian: varméi, varmélli
Italian: vermiglio
Mirandese: burmeilho
Old French: vermeil, vermail, vermoil
- Middle French: vermeil
  - French: vermeil
- → Middle English: vermayle
  - English: vermeil
Old Galician-Portuguese: vermelho
- Galician: vermello
- Portuguese: vermelho (see there for further descendants)
Old Occitan: vermelh
- Occitan: vermelh
Old Spanish: vermejo, uermego, uermeio, vermeio, vermello
- Spanish: bermejo
Piedmontese: vermej
Borrowings:
- → English: vermilion
- → Portuguese: vermículo

“vermiculus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
vermiculus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
vermiculus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

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