worm – English noun declension

English noun forms of worm

Noun: worm
Singularworm
Pluralworms

Sample Sentences

  • ‘Children crawled over each other like little grey worms in the gutters,’ he said. ‘The only red things about them were their buttocks and they were raw. Their faces looked as if snails had slimed on them and their mothers were like great sick beasts whose byres had never been cleared.[…]’ [1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 7, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:]
  • Leaning that I might eat, I stretched and clung
  • Over the shapeless depth in which those corpses hung.
  • A woman’s shape, now lank and cold and blue,
  • The dwelling of the many-coloured worm,
  • Hung there […] [1817 December, Percy Bysshe Shelley, “The Revolt of Islam. […]”, in [Mary] Shelley, editor, The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley. […], volume I, London: Edward Moxon […], published 1839, →OCLC, page 216:]
  • A forlyued cok leiþ eiren in his laste elde... and ȝif any venemous worme sittiþ on broode þerevppon in þe canyculer dayes, þerof is igendrid... a cocatrice. [a. 1398, John Trevisa, transl. Bartholomeus Anglicus as De Proprietatibus Rerum (MS BL Add. 27944), Vol. I, p. 628]
  • 1561, Geneva Bible, Acts 28:3-4,
  • And when Paul had gathered a nomber of stickes, & laid them on the fyre, there came a viper out of the heat, and leapt on his hand. Now when the Barbarians sawe the worme hang on his hand, they said among them selues This man surely is a murtherer, whome, thogh he hathe escaped the sea, yet Vengeance hathe not suffred to liue.
  • […] No, ’tis slander,
  • Whose edge is sharper than the sword, whose tongue
  • Outvenoms all the worms of Nile […] [1611 April (first recorded performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Cymbeline”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene iv]:]
  • When Cerberus perceived us, the great worm!
  • His mouth he opened and displayed his tusks;
  • Not a limb had he that was motionless. [1867, Dante Alighieri, “The Divine Comedy”, in Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, transl., Inferno, volume I, Boston: Ticknor & Fields, Canto 6, lines 22-24, p. 35:]
  • Those little wriggling worms are the larvae of flies who laid eggs here.
  • a. 1398, John Trevisa, transl. Bartholomeus Anglicus as De Proprietatibus Rerum (MS BL Add. 27944), Vol. I, p. 628:
  • In the Cross of Cong (A.D. 1123) the Celtic inter-laced patterns are found side by side with the "worm-dragon" ornament .. [1922, A. Walsh, Scandinavian Relations with Ireland during the Viking Period:]
  • Indeed the allusion to the more renowned worm killed by the Wælsing is sufficient indication that the poet selected a dragon of well-founded purpose[.] [1936, J. R. R. Tolkien, Beowulf: The Monsters and the Critics, Norwood, Pa.: Norwood Editions, published 1976, page 9:]
  • The after fifty years a foul worm, a dragon, took it upon itself to hold sway through the heavens at night. [1961, Norma Lorre Goodrich, “Beowulf”, in The Medieval Myths, New York: The New American Library, page 39:]
  • Don't try to run away, you little worm!
  • But I am a worme, and no man; a reproach of men, and despised of the people. [1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Psalms 22:6:]
  • Would he devote that Sacred Head
  • For ſuch a Worm as I? [1707, Isaac Watts, “Godly Sorrow ariſing from the Sufferings of Chriſt”, in Hymns and Spiritual Songs, London: J. Humfreys, page 86:]
  • Lord, why is this, I trembling cry'd,
  • Wilt thou purſue thy worm to death? [1779, John Newton, “Prayer anſwered by croſſes”, in Olney hymns, in three books, London: W. Oliver, page 353:]
  • When Trevor opened his email, a worm spread to 100 people in his address book.
  • If the Worms of the Nut or Spindle be worn, the Spindle must be examin'd by the Smith [1683, Joseph Moxon, Mechanick exercises:]
  • Holonyms: worm drive, worm and wheel
  • The worm of conscience still begnaw thy soul! [c. 1593 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Richard the Third: […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iii]:]

Etymology

1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Germanic *wurmiz
3. Proto-West Germanic *wurmi
4. Old English wyrm
5. Middle English worm
6. English worm
7. From Middle English werm, wirm, worm, worme, wrim, wurm, wyrm, wyrme, from Old English weorm, wurm, wyrm, from Proto-West Germanic *wurmi, from Proto-Germanic *wurmiz (“worm; snake”), from Proto-Indo-European *wr̥mis (“worm; larva”), possibly from *wer- (“to turn”). Doublet of vermin and wyrm, the latter of which is a fairly recent borrowing directly from the Old English.
8. (computing): First computer usage by John Brunner in his 1975 book The Shockwave Rider.
9. Cognates
10. Germanic cognates include North Frisian wörem, wörm, Würem (“worm”), Saterland Frisian Wurm, Wúurm (“worm”), West Frisian wjirm (“worm”), Alemannic German Wüüre (“worm”), Cimbrian bórm (“worm”), burm (“snake”), Dutch worm, wurm (“worm”), German Gewürm (“vermin”), Wurm (“worm”), Low German Worm (“worm”), Luxembourgish Wuerm (“worm”), Mòcheno burm (“snake”), Vilamovian vūəm, wüm (“worm”), Yiddish וואָרעם (vorem, “worm”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, and Swedish orm (“worm”), Faroese and Icelandic ormur (“worm”), Norwegian Nynorsk orm (“worm”), yrme, yrmle (“female snake with offspring”), Gothic 𐍅𐌰𐌿𐍂𐌼𐍃 (waurms, “snake”), Kildin Sami уррьм (urr’m, “gadfly larva”), Skolt Sami uʹrmm (“gadfly larva”).
11. Indo-European cognates include Latin vermis (“worm”), Ancient Greek ῥόμοξ (rhómox), ῥόμος (rhómos, “woodworm”), Albanian rrime (“rainworm”). See: Middle English Nouns 'werm,wirm,worm,worme,wrim,wurm,wyrm,wyrme', Dutch Nouns 'worm', German Nouns 'Gewürm', Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns 'orm', Gothic Nouns '𐍅𐌰𐌿𐍂𐌼𐍃', Latin Nouns 'vermis'.

Verbs referencing "worm"

Dutch Nouns worm, German Nouns Wurm, Danish Nouns orm, Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns orm, Swedish Nouns orm, Ancient Greek Nouns ἕλμινς, French Nouns morve, Russian Nouns вермишель, Spanish Nouns gusano informático.