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English

Alternative forms

• Spam, SPAM

Etymology

The original sense (canned ham) is a proprietary name registered by Geo. A. Hormel & Co. in U.S., 1937. It is presumed to be a conflation of either spiced ham or shoulder of pork and ham but was soon extended to other kinds of canned meat. Hormel spells the trademarked name in all upper case.

The use for unsolicited and unwanted email derives from a Monty Python sketch (Flying Circus, Episode 25). In the 1970 sketch, a group of Vikings in a restaurant repeatedly chant the word "spam". The earliest recorded real-life use for this sense occurs around 1993 which finds reference in an email dated March 31, 1993.

The term appears to have been used earlier in a different sense in relation to "Multi-User Dungeons" (MUDs), a kind of multi-user computer gaming environment before widespread use of the Internet, in the 1980s.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?spæm/
• also (æ-tensing) IPA^(key): [?spe?m]
• Rhymes: -æm

Noun

spam (countable and uncountable, plural spams)

1. (uncountable, rarely countable, computing, Internet) Unsolicited bulk electronic messages.

   Synonym: junk mail

   Antonym: ham

2. (uncountable, computing, Internet) Any undesired electronic content automatically generated for commercial purposes.
3. A type of tinned meat made mainly from ham.

Hyponyms

Meronyms

• e-mail, email

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

spam (third-person singular simple present spams, present participle spamming, simple past and past participle spammed)

1. (intransitive, computing, Internet) To send spam (i.e. unsolicited electronic messages.)
2. (transitive, computing, Internet) To send spam (i.e. unsolicited electronic messages) to a person or entity.
3. (transitive, by extension, video games) To use (a spell or ability) rapidly and repeatedly.

4. (transitive, intransitive, computing, Internet) To post the same text repeatedly with disruptive effect; to flood.

Translations

See also

• Wikipedia article on spamming
• Official SPAM home page

References

Anagrams

• AMPS, APMs, MAPs, MPAs, amps, maps, pams, sAMP, samp

Danish

Etymology 1

Borrowed from English spam.

Noun

spam (genitive spams)

1. (computing, Internet) Spam.

Etymology 2

See spamme.

Verb

spam

1. imperative of spamme

Dutch

Pronunciation

• (Belgium) IPA^(key): /sp?m/
• (Netherlands) IPA^(key): /sp?m/
• Hyphenation: spam

Etymology 1

Borrowed from English spam.

Noun

spam m (uncountable)

1. spam (undesired electronic content)

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

spam

1. first-person singular present indicative of spammen
2. imperative of spammen

French

Etymology

Borrowed from English spam.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /spam/

Noun

spam m (plural spams)

1. spam (meat)
2. (computing, Internet) spam

Synonyms

• (unsolicited email): pourriel, courriel indésirable

Hungarian

Etymology

Borrowed from English spam.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?sp?m]
• Rhymes: -?m

Noun

spam (plural spamek)

1. (computing, Internet) spam

Declension

Interlingua

Noun

spam (plural spams)

1. (computing, Internet) spam

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from English spam.

Noun

spam m (invariable)

1. (Internet) spam

Related terms

• spamming

Polish

Etymology

From English spam.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /spam/

Noun

spam m inan

1. (computing, Internet) spam (unsolicited bulk electronic messages)

Declension

Derived terms

• (verb) spamowa?

Related terms

• (noun) spamer

Further reading

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

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from English spam.

Noun

spam m (uncountable)

1. (computing, Internet) spam

Slovene

Etymology

Borrowed from English spam.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sp???m/

Noun

sp?m m inan

1. (Internet) spam (unwanted messages)

Alternative forms

• sp?m

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from English spam.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?spam/, [?spãm]

• IPA^(key): /es?pam/, [es?pãm]

Noun

spam m (plural spams)

1. (computing) spam

Swedish

Etymology

Borrowed from English spam. Earliest attested in 1997.

Noun

spam n

1. (uncountable) spam (unsolicited electronic messages)

Declension

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Synonyms

• skräppost

Derived terms

• spammare
• spamfilter

References

• spam in Svensk ordbok (SO)

Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from English spam.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [spam]
• Hyphenation: spam

Noun

spam (definite accusative spam?, plural spamlar)

1. (computing, Internet) spam

Usage notes

As the word starts with two consonants, some Turkish people will have difficulties to spell it correctly. It may be spelled also s?pam.

Declension

Synonyms

• y???n mesaj

Vietnamese

Etymology

Borrowed from English spam.

Pronunciation

• (Hà N?i) IPA^(key): [spam??]
• (Hu?) IPA^(key): [spam??]
• (H? Chí Minh City) IPA^(key): [spam??]
• Phonetic: xp?m

Noun

spam

1. (computing, Internet) spam

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?