Termes

Etymology
From the, late variant of the Classical , used by.

Usage notes

 * Termites are not well described. This genus name has been used to include a large number of termites, not necessarily properly associated with the genus as described by Linnaeus.

Hypernyms

 * ; - subfamily

Proper noun

 * 1)  a town in
 * 2) * AD 77–79, Gaius Plinius Secundus (author), Karl Friedrich Theodor Mayhoff (editor), Naturalis Historia (1906), book III, chapter xvii:
 * arevacis nomen dedit fluvius areva. horum vi oppida, secontia et vxama, quae nomina crebro aliis in locis usurpantur, praeterea segovia et nova augusta, termes ipsaque clunia, celtiberiae finis.
 * The river Areva gives its name to the Arevaci; of whom there are six towns, Segontia and Uxama, names which are frequently given to other places, as also Segovia and Nova Augusta, Termes, and Clunia itself, the frontier of Celtiberia. ― translation from: John Bostock and, The Natural History (1855), book III: “An Account of Countries, Nations, Seas, Towns, Havens, Mountains, Rivers, Distances, and Peoples Who Now Exist or Formerly Existed”, chapter iv (iii): ‘Of Nearer Spain’
 * The river Areva gives its name to the Arevaci; of whom there are six towns, Segontia and Uxama, names which are frequently given to other places, as also Segovia and Nova Augusta, Termes, and Clunia itself, the frontier of Celtiberia. ― translation from: John Bostock and, The Natural History (1855), book III: “An Account of Countries, Nations, Seas, Towns, Havens, Mountains, Rivers, Distances, and Peoples Who Now Exist or Formerly Existed”, chapter iv (iii): ‘Of Nearer Spain’

Proper noun

 * 1) a town in