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larva
English
Etymology
From Latin larva (“ghost-like, masked”).
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?l??.v?/
- (General American) IPA(key): /?l??.v?/
- (US)
- Rhymes: -??(r)v?
- Homophone: lava (in non-rhotic accents)
Noun
larva (plural larvas or larvae or larvæ)
- An early stage of growth for some insects and amphibians, in which after hatching from their egg, insects are wingless and resemble a caterpillar or grub, and amphibians lack limbs and resemble fish.
- An animal in the aforementioned stage.
- A form of a recently born or hatched animal that is quite different from its adult stage.
Usage notes
Although the plural larvas is somewhat common, it is regarded by some as incorrect.
Translations
Anagrams
- Raval, alvar, arval, lavra
Albanian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?la?.va/
Noun
larva
- plural of larvë
Catalan
Etymology
From Latin larva (“ghost-like, masked”).
Pronunciation
- (Balearic) IPA(key): /?la?.v?/
- (Central) IPA(key): /?lar.b?/
- (Valencian) IPA(key): /?la?.va/
Noun
larva f (plural larves)
- larva
Related terms
- larval
- larvari
Further reading
- “larva” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “larva” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
- “larva” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “larva” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
Czech
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [?larva]
- Rhymes: -arva
- Hyphenation: lar?va
Noun
larva f
- larva
Declension
Galician
Etymology
From Latin larva (“ghost-like, masked”).
Noun
larva f (plural larvas)
- larva
Related terms
- larval
Further reading
- “larva” in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega, Royal Galician Academy.
Italian
Etymology
From Latin larva (“ghost-like, masked”).
Noun
larva f (plural larve)
- larva, grub
- Synonym: bruco
- (figuratively) shadow, skeleton
Derived terms
- larvale
- larvato
- larvicida
Further reading
- larva in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
Latin
Etymology
Possibly from L?r (“Etruscan praenomen; titulary god”), usu. as Lares (“guardian deities”), but vowel length gradation unexplained.
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /?la?r.u?a/, [???ä?ru?ä]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /?lar.va/, [?l?rv?]
- (Plautine) IPA(key): /?la?.ru.a/, [???ä??uä]
- (Plautine) IPA(key): /?la.ru.a/, [?l???u?]
Noun
l?rva f (genitive l?rvae); first declension
- ghost, haunt, evil spirit, demon, devil
- hobgoblin, goblin
- (figuratively) horrific mask
- (figuratively) skeleton
Declension
First-declension noun.
Quotations
- circa 200 B.C., Plautus, Captivi, Act 3, Scene 4, line 66:
- Larvae stimulant virum.
- The ghosts rouse the man.
- Larvae stimulant virum.
Derived terms
- l?rv?lis
- l?rv?ns
- l?rv?
Descendants
Verb
larv?
- second-person singular present active imperative of larv? (enchant!)
References
- larva in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- larva in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- larva in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
- De Vaan, Michiel (2008) , “l?rua”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, ?ISBN, page 328
Norwegian Bokmål
Alternative forms
- larven
Noun
larva m or f
- definite feminine singular of larve
Norwegian Nynorsk
Alternative forms
- larven
Noun
larva m or f
- definite feminine singular of larve
Portuguese
Etymology
From Latin larva (“ghost-like, masked”).
Noun
larva f (plural larvas)
- larva (early growth stage of some insects and amphibians)
Related terms
- larval
- larvar
- larvário
Further reading
- “larva” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.
Romanian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [?larva]
Noun
larva f
- definite nominative/accusative singular of larv?
Spanish
Etymology
From Latin larva (“ghost-like, masked”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?la?ba/, [?la?.??a]
Noun
larva f (plural larvas)
- larva
- (obsolete) ghost
Related terms
- larval
- larvario
Further reading
- “larva” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.
Swedish
Etymology
From Latin larva (“facemask”). (Can this(+) etymology be sourced?)
Verb
larva (present larvar, preterite larvade, supine larvat, imperative larva)
- (reflexive) to behave flippantly, childishly or ridiculously; to tramp, to footle
Conjugation
Related terms
- larv
- larvig
Anagrams
- Alvar, lavar, valar
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glowworm
English
Alternative forms
- glow-worm
Etymology
From Middle English glouworm; equivalent to glow +? worm.
Noun
glowworm (plural glowworms)
- The larva or wingless grub-like female of a beetle from the families Phengodidae or Lampyridae that gives out a green light from its abdomen.
- c. 1600, William Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act I, Scene 5,[1],
- The glowworm shows the matin to be near
- And ’gins to pale his uneffectual fire.
- Adieu, adieu, adieu! Remember me.
- 1604, William Alexander, The Alexandraean Tragedie, Act V, Scene 2, in The Monarchicke Tragedies, London: Ed. Blount, 1607,[2]
- Some things afarre doe like the Glow-worme shine,
- That lookt to neere haue of that light no signe.
- c. 1613, John Webster, The Duchess of Malfi, London: John Waterson, 1623, Act IV, Scene 2,[3]
- Glories (like glowe-wormes) a farre off, shine bright,
- But look’d to neere, haue neither heate, nor light.
- 1681, Andrew Marvell, “The Mower to the Glo-Worms” in Miscellaneous Poems, London: Robert Boulter, p. 44,[4]
- Ye Glo-worms, whose officious Flame
- To wandring Mowers shows the way,
- That in the Night have lost their aim,
- And after foolish Fires do stray;
- 1819, William Wordsworth, “The Waggoner” Canto 1, in The Miscellaneous Poems of William Wordsworth, London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme & Brown, 1820, p. 7,[5]
- Confiding Glow-worms, ’tis a night
- Propitious to your earth-born light!
- 1954, Dylan Thomas, Under Milk Wood, New York: New Directions, p. 1,[6]
- Young girls lie bedded soft or glide in their dreams, with rings and trousseaux, bridesmaided by glowworms down the aisles of the organplaying wood.
- c. 1600, William Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act I, Scene 5,[1],
- (Australia, New Zealand) A carnivorous gnat larva in the keroplatid genus Arachnocampa that spins threads to capture insects attracted by its glow.
Translations
See also
- firefly
Further reading
- glowworm on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
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