different between terms vs curculio

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /t??mz/
• (US) IPA^(key): /t?mz/

Noun

terms

1. plural of term

Verb

terms

1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of term

Anagrams

• ERTMS

Swedish

Noun

terms

1. indefinite genitive singular of term

English

Etymology

Latin, a grain weevil.

Noun

curculio (plural curculios)

1. Any of the genus Curculio of weevils.

Latin

Alternative forms

• gurgulio (Post Classical)

Etymology

Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- (“to bend, curve, turn”). Cognate with English shrink, and Latin carcer, curvus and cancer.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /kur?ku.li.o?/, [k?r?k?lio?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /kur?ku.li.o/, [kur?ku?li?]

Noun

curculi? f (genitive curculi?nis); third declension

1. weevil

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Descendants

• Catalan: corcoll
• Galician: gurgullo
• Italian: curculione, gorgoglione
• Portuguese: gorgulho
• Spanish: gorgojo

References

• curculio in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• curculio in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• curculio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• curculio in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers