different between butterflies vs moth

English

Noun

butterflies

1. plural of butterfly

Noun

butterflies pl (plural only)

1. (by ellipsis) butterflies in one's stomach

Derived terms

• butterflies in one's stomach

Verb

butterflies

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

Anagrams

• filter tubes, flutterbies

English

Etymology 1

Germanic: from Old English moþþe, cognate with Dutch mot, German Motte.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /m??/
• (General American) enPR: môth, IPA^(key): /m??/
• (cot–caught merger, Canada) IPA^(key): /m??/, enPR: m?th
• Rhymes: -??

Noun

moth (plural moths)

1. A usually nocturnal insect of the order Lepidoptera, distinguished from butterflies by feather-like antennae.
2. (figuratively) Anything that gradually and silently eats, consumes, or wastes any other thing.

Synonyms

• lep

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

moth (third-person singular simple present moths, present participle mothing, simple past and past participle mothed)

1. (intransitive) To hunt for moths.

See also

• butterfly
• caterpillar
• worm

Etymology 2

From Hindi ??? (mo?h); see moth bean.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /m??t/
• (General American) enPR: m?t, IPA^(key): /mo?t/
• Rhymes: -??t

Noun

moth (countable and uncountable, plural moths)

1. The plant Vigna aconitifolia, moth bean.

Synonyms

• (Vigna aconitifolia): Turkish gram, mat bean, matki

Derived terms

• moth bean
• moth flour

Translations

References

• Vigna aconitifolia on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Vigna aconitifolia on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Vigna aconitifolia on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
• moth at USDA Plants database

Etymology 3

Noun

moth (plural moths)

1. Obsolete form of mote.

   • So that, dear lords, if I be left behind, / A moth of peace, and he go to the war, / The rites for which I love him are bereft me, / And I a heavy interim shall support / By his dear absence. Let me go with him.

2. (dated) A liver spot, especially an irregular or feathery one.
   • 1895, Good Housekeeping, page 196, ISSN: 0731-3462

     To remove moth patches, wash the spots with a solution of common bicarbonate of soda and water several times a day, until the patches are removed, which will usually be in forty-eight hours.

   • 1999, R. L. Gupta, Directory of Diseases & Cures: In Homoeopathy, page 254, ?ISBN.

     Craves for sour things, chalks and eggs, fatty people with light brown spots on the face or liver spots, moth patches on forehead and cheek.

   • 2005, J. D. Patil, Textbook of Applied Materia Medica, page 108, ?ISBN.

     There are signs of liver affections as weakness, yellow complexion, liver spots, and moth spot like a saddle over the nose.

References

Anagrams

• Thom

Old Irish

Etymology

The word also carried the original meaning of "male organ," from Proto-Celtic *muto-, from Proto-Indo-European *mHú-to- (“strong one”), perhaps later "penis," related to Hittite [script needed] (m?wa, “something awe-inspiring”) and Luwian [script needed] (m?wa-, “to overpower”), possibly also Latin muto (“penis”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mo?/

Noun

moth m

1. amazement, stupor
   • c. 800–825, Diarmait, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 68^b9

Declension

Mutation

References

Further reading

• Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019) , “1 moth”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language