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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

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: p?'k?, IPA^(key): /?p??ki/
• Homophone: pokey

Etymology 1

From poker machine +? -ie (“diminutive suffix”); believed to have been coined in New South Wales in the 1970s.

Noun

pokie (plural pokies)

1. (Australia, New Zealand, slang) A poker machine. Mostly used in the plural (pokies). Poker machine is the standard term used in the singular.
   • 2004, Bernard Salt, The Big Shift, page 77,

     For several decades until the early 1990s, Echuca–Moama existed in the consciousness of Melburnians as the destination for pokie bus-trips. All of this changed when the Kennett Government legalised pokies in Victoria in 1993.

   • 2006, author not known, Sydney City Guide, Lonely Planet, page 148,

     In reality, the cheap beer and walls of pokies attract anyone and everyone.

   • 2008, Catherine Deveny, Say When, page 171,

     None of these people around me punching the pokies has walked in here today expecting to be a loser.

Synonyms

• poker machine, pokie machine, fruit machine, slot, slot machine

Translations

See also

• slot machine on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Etymology 2

Shortening of genus name Poecilotheria

Noun

pokie (plural pokies)

1. (informal) Any of several species of arboreal tarantula in the genus Poecilotheria.

Further reading

• Poecilotheria on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Poecilotheria on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Poecilotheria on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons