different between filibuster vs tarantula

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish filibustero (“pirate”), from French flibustier, ultimately from Dutch vrijbuiter (“freebooter”), from vrij (“free”) + buit (“booty”) + -er (“agent”). The alteration in the first syllable in French is due to the word being somewhat conflated with vlieboot (“light, flat-bottomed cargo vessel with two or three masts”) when it was borrowed into French or another language from Dutch. The word is cognate and analogous to English freebooter.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?f?l?b?st?(?)/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?f?l?b?st?/
• Hyphenation: fi?li?bust?er

Noun

filibuster (plural filibusters)

1. A mercenary soldier; a freebooter; specifically, a mercenary who travelled illegally in an organized group from the United States to a country in Central America or the Spanish West Indies in the mid-19th century seeking economic and political benefits through armed force.
2. (US politics) A tactic (such as giving long, often irrelevant speeches) employed to delay the proceedings of, or the making of a decision by, a legislative body, particularly the United States Senate.
3. (US politics) A member of a legislative body causing such an obstruction; a filibusterer.

Synonyms

• (mercenary soldier): see Thesaurus:mercenary

Antonyms

• (sense 2): cloture

Derived terms

• filibusterer

Related terms

• flibustier

Descendants

• ? Dutch: filibuster
• ? Indonesian: filibuster

Translations

Verb

filibuster (third-person singular simple present filibusters, present participle filibustering, simple past and past participle filibustered)

1. To take part in a private military action in a foreign country.
2. (originally and mainly US, politics) To use obstructionist tactics in a legislative body.
   • Jan 20, 2012, “Meanwhile, back in Eastleigh, away from the filibustering in Westminster, Chris Huhne was able to concentrate on constituency business.”https://www.eastleighnews.co.uk/2012/01/daylight-saving-bill-runs-out-of-time/

Translations

Further reading

• filibuster on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• flibustier

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English filibuster, from Spanish filibustero, from French flibustier, from Dutch vrijbuiter.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?f?.li?b?s.t?r/
• Hyphenation: fi?li?bus?ter

Noun

filibuster m (plural filibusters)

1. (US politics) A filibuster, a tactic to delay Congressional procedures.
2. (historical) A filibuster, an American mercenary who operated in Central America or the Spanish West Indies seeking to gain wealth or political power.

Indonesian

Etymology

From English filibuster, from Spanish filibustero (“pirate”), from French flibustier, from Dutch vrijbuiter (“freebooter”), as vrij (“free”) +? buit (“booty”) +? -er (“agent”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [fili?b?st?r]
• Hyphenation: fi?li?bus?têr

Noun

filibustêr (first-person possessive filibusterku, second-person possessive filibustermu, third-person possessive filibusternya)

1. filibuster,
   1. a tactic (such as giving long, often irrelevant speeches) employed to delay the proceedings of, or the making of a decision by, a legislative body.
   2. a private military action.

Further reading

• “filibuster” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.

English

Etymology

From Medieval Latin tarantula, from Old Italian tarantola, from Taranto (“seaport in southern Italy”), from Latin Tarentum (“Latin name of the town”), from Ancient Greek ????? (Tár?s, “Greek name of the town”) (compare Modern Greek ???????? (Tárantas) and Tarantino Tarde), probably from Illyrian *darandos (“oak”).

Sense 3 (“Lycosa tarantula”) is the original sense of the word, and refers to the fact that the spider was common in the Apulia region where Taranto is located. Sense 1 (“New World spider in the family Theraphosidae”), the main modern sense of the word, may have been a transferred use of Spanish tarántula (“tarantula (Lycosa tarantula)”) to describe large, hairy spiders found in the New World.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /t?.??æn.t???.l?/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /t?.??æn.t???.l?/
• Hyphenation: ta?ran?tu?la

Noun

tarantula (plural tarantulas or tarantulae)

1. Any of the large, hairy New World spiders comprising the family Theraphosidae.

   Synonyms: bird spider, monkey spider, rain spider
2. (by extension) A member of certain other groups of spiders, generally characterized by large size, hairiness, or membership of infraorder Mygalomorphae to which Theraphosidae family also belongs.
3. (dated) A species of wolf spider, Lycosa tarantula, native to southern Europe, the mildly poisonous bite of which was once thought to cause an extreme urge to dance (tarantism). [from mid 16th c.]

Derived terms

Related terms

• tarantella
• tarantism

Translations

References

Further reading

• tarantula on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• tarantula (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• tarantula in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• “tarantula” in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
• tarantula at OneLook Dictionary Search

Polish

Etymology

From French tarentule, from Italian tarantola, named after Taranto, a seaport in southern Italy; from Latin Tarentum, from Ancient Greek ????? (Tár?s, “Tar?s”); ultimately from Illyrian *darandos (“oak”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ta.ran?tu.la/

Noun

tarantula f

1. tarantula (Lycosa tarantula)

Declension

Further reading

• tarantula in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
• tarantula in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Romanian

Noun

tarantula

1. definite nominative singular of tarantul?
2. definite accusative singular of tarantul?