different between tarantula vs moth

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?

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