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tarantula
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)
- Any of the large, hairy New World spiders comprising the family Theraphosidae.
- Synonyms: bird spider, monkey spider, rain spider
- (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.
- (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
- 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
- definite nominative singular of tarantul?
- definite accusative singular of tarantul?
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spider
English
Etymology
From Middle English spiþre, spydyr, spider, spiþer, from Old English sp?þra (“spider”), from Proto-West Germanic *spinþr?, from Proto-Germanic *spinnan? (“to spin”). Mostly displaced attercop (“spider, unpleasant person”), now a dialectal term.
Pronunciation
- (General American) enPR: sp??d?r, IPA(key): /?spa??d?/
- (New England, Inland North, Canada) enPR: sp??d?r, IPA(key): [?sp?????(?)]
- (Received Pronunciation) enPR: sp??d?, IPA(key): /?spa??d?/
- Homophone: Spyder
- Rhymes: -a?d?(?)
Noun
spider (countable and uncountable, plural spiders)
- Any of various eight-legged, predatory arthropods, of the order Araneae, most of which spin webs to catch prey.
- (Internet) A program which follows links on the World Wide Web in order to gather information.
- (chiefly Australia and New Zealand) A float (drink) made by mixing ice-cream and a soda or fizzy drink (such as lemonade).
- 2002, Katharine Gasparini, Cranberry and vanilla ice cream spider, recipe in Cool Food, page 339.
- (Australia, New Zealand, obsolete) An alcoholic drink made with brandy and lemonade or ginger beer.
- (slang) A spindly person.
- (slang) A man who persistently approaches or accosts a woman in a public social setting, particularly in a bar.
- (snooker, billiards) A stick with a convex arch-shaped notched head used to support the cue when the cue ball is out of reach at normal extension; a bridge.
- (cooking, US, Britain, chiefly historical and now dialectal) A cast-iron frying pan with three legs, once common in open-hearth cookery.
- 1846, Mary Hooker Cornelius, The Young Housekeeper's Friend, page 146, recipe 28 “To fry salt pork”:
- Cut slices and lay them in cold water in the spider; boil them up two or three minutes, then pour off the water and set the spider again on the coals and brown the slices on each side.
- 2005, Marty Davidson, Grandma Grace's Southern Favorites, recipe for “strawberry coconuts”, Rutledge Hill Press, ?ISBN, page 193:
- In spider pan or deep skillet set over hot coals, quickly fry a few at a time in deep lard until brown.
- 2008, Corona Club (San Francisco, California), Corona Club Cook Book, page 202,
- Melt ½ the dry sugar in the spider, stirring with knife until all is melted.
- 1846, Mary Hooker Cornelius, The Young Housekeeper's Friend, page 146, recipe 28 “To fry salt pork”:
- (cooking) Implement for moving food in and out of hot oil for deep frying, with a circular metal mesh attached to a long handle; a spider skimmer
- 1996, City and Guilds of London Institute, Food preparation and cooking. Cookery units. Student guide., Stanley Thornes, ?ISBN, unit 2ND5, element 2, page 157:
- If you are deep-frying your falafel, use a spider or basket to place them gently into the hot oil, which should be preheated to a temperature of 175°C (330°F).
- 2008, Anna Kasabian and David Kasabian, The Wild Fish Cookbook, Creative Publishing International, ?ISBN, page 84:
- Consider investing in a frying basket or a spider for small amounts of fish. A spider looks like a metal web and has a long handle and can lower and raise fish from the hot oil.
- 1996, City and Guilds of London Institute, Food preparation and cooking. Cookery units. Student guide., Stanley Thornes, ?ISBN, unit 2ND5, element 2, page 157:
- (cycling) A part of a crank, to which the chainrings are attached.
- (slang, uncountable) Heroin.
- (music) Part of a resonator instrument that transmits string vibrations from the bridge to a resonator cone at multiple points.
- A skeleton or frame with radiating arms or members, often connected by crosspieces, such as a casting forming the hub and spokes to which the rim of a fly wheel or large gear is bolted; the body of a piston head; or a frame for strengthening a core or mould for a casting.
- (fly fishing, England) a soft-hackle fly
- (sports) The network of wires separating the areas of a dartboard
- (mathematics) A spider graph or spider tree
- (obsolete) A type of light phaeton.
- (film) A support for a camera tripod, preventing it from sliding.
- 1927, H. Mario Raimondo Souto, The Technique of the Motion Picture Camera (page 64)
- The spider is very useful for shooting in the studio or on locations with smooth floors where tripod legs tend to slide.
- 1927, H. Mario Raimondo Souto, The Technique of the Motion Picture Camera (page 64)
Synonyms
- (arthropod of the order Araneae): attercop (obsolete except in dialects); cop (obsolete)
Derived terms
- assassin spider
- coconut spider
- extended spider
- pelican spider
- rolling spider
- spider hole
- spiderdom
- spidership
- spidery
- spider solitaire
Translations
Verb
spider (third-person singular simple present spiders, present participle spidering, simple past and past participle spidered)
- To move like a spider.
- 2001, Life Books, Life: The Greatest Adventures of All Time, Time Home Entertainment Incorporated ?ISBN
- A year later she returned to El Cap and spidered up the wall again — this time in 23 hours.
- 2009, Michael Crummey, Galore: A novel, Doubleday Canada ?ISBN
- They saved the hall though the facing and part of the roof had to be torn out and replaced, men spidered over the building to repair it before Coaker's arrival.
- 2012, David Gross, Lord of Stormweather: Sembia: Gateway to the Realms, Wizards of the Coast ?ISBN
- Briefly he considered letting go to glide along in Radu's wake as the assassin spidered up the wall.
- 2001, Life Books, Life: The Greatest Adventures of All Time, Time Home Entertainment Incorporated ?ISBN
- To cover a surface like a cobweb.
- 2011, Jenna Burtenshaw, Wintercraft: Blackwatch, Hachette UK ?ISBN
- High walls surrounded it on all sides, each one covered with the skeletal stems of climbing plants that spidered across the stones, and the ground was cobbled between patches of frozen grass.
- 2011, MJ Ware, Super Zombie Juice Mega Bomb, MJA Ware ?ISBN
- Large cracks spidered across the mask's glass where the nozzle had hit.
- 2013, Mary Gentle, Rats and Gargoyles, Hachette UK ?ISBN
- Moss spidered across the stone, fresh green. Seaweed sprouted bright yellows and ochres between the vast webs of fingers.
- 2011, Jenna Burtenshaw, Wintercraft: Blackwatch, Hachette UK ?ISBN
- (Internet, of a computer program) To follow links on the World Wide Web in order to gather information.
- The online dictionary is regularly spidered by search engines.
Derived terms
- Web spidering
See also
- arachnid
Further reading
- spider on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- spider (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Anagrams
- 'spired, Prides, prides, prised, re-dips, redips, risped, spired
Italian
Etymology
From English spider.
Noun
spider m (invariable)
- (computing) spider (Internet software)
Anagrams
- sperdi
Middle English
Noun
spider
- Alternative form of spiþre
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