: a statue in the form of a square stone pillar surmounted by a bust or head especially of Hermes
Examples of herm in a Sentence
Recent Examples on the WebThis female image of fruitfulness is matched across the painting’s 10-foot expanse by a menacing herm of Pan — the god of the fields, symbol of fertility and, according to Plutarch, the only Greek deity who dies — peering out from the bushes.—Los Angeles Times, 6 Dec. 2021 Publicly displayed for the first time, the tripod’s legs are adorned with carved ivory bas-reliefs of cupids cavorting around herms, boundary markers of stone pillars with human heads.—Christopher Knight, latimes.com, 3 July 2019
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Word History
Etymology
Latin hermes, from Greek hermēs statue of Hermes, herm, from Hermēs
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