different between vespa vs hornet

Catalan

Etymology

From Old Occitan vespa, from Latin vespa, from Proto-Indo-European *wob?seh? (“wasp”), from *web?- (“to weave”).

Pronunciation

• (Balearic) IPA^(key): /?ves.p?/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /?bes.p?/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /?ves.pa/

Noun

vespa f (plural vespes)

1. wasp

Related terms

• vesper

Further reading

• “vespa” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “vespa” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “vespa” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “vespa” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Finnish

Etymology

Generalized from the Italian motor scooter brand name Vespa.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??esp?/, [??e?s?p?]
• Rhymes: -esp?
• Syllabification: ves?pa

Noun

vespa

1. (informal) scooter (motorcycle or moped equipped with a platform for the operator's feet)

Declension

Synonyms

• skootteri

Galician

Noun

vespa f (plural vespas)

1. Alternative form of avespa

Icelandic

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -?spa

Noun

vespa f (genitive singular vespu, nominative plural vespur)

1. hornet

Declension

Interlingua

Noun

vespa (plural vespas)

1. wasp

Related terms

• vespere
• vespiario

Italian

Etymology

From Latin vespa, from Proto-Indo-European *wob?seh? (“wasp”), from *web?- (“to weave”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?v?s.pa/
• Hyphenation: vè?spa

Noun

vespa f (plural vespe)

1. wasp
2. motor scooter (originally capitalised)

Derived terms

• vespaio
• vespino
• vespone

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *wosp?, metathesized from earlier Proto-Italic *wops?, from Proto-Indo-European *wops-éh?, from *wóps.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?u?es.pa/, [?u??s?pä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?ves.pa/, [?v?sp?]

Noun

vespa f (genitive vespae); first declension

1. wasp

Declension

First-declension noun.

Derived terms

• vesp?sus (“waspy”)

Descendants

See also

• apis
• crabro

References

• vespa in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• vespa in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• vespa in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)

Piedmontese

Noun

vespa f (plural vespe)

1. wasp

Related terms

• vespé
• vespun

Portuguese

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: ves?pa

Etymology 1

From Old Portuguese vespa, from Latin vespa, from Proto-Indo-European *wob?seh? (“wasp”), from *web?- (“to weave”).

Noun

vespa f (plural vespas)

1. wasp

Related terms

• vespão
• vespeiro

Etymology 2

From Italian Vespa.

Noun

vespa f (plural vespas)

1. motor scooter

References

Further reading

• “vespa” in iDicionário Aulete.
• “vespa” in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa.

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian vespa.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?êspa/
• Hyphenation: ves?pa

Noun

v?spa f (Cyrillic spelling ??????)

1. (informal) motor scooter

Declension

References

• “vespa” in Hrvatski jezi?ni portal

Sicilian

Etymology

From Latin vespa.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?v?spa/, [?v??pa]
• Hyphenation: vès?pa

Noun

vespa f (plural vespi)

1. wasp

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian vespa. Doublet of avispa.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?bespa/, [?bes.pa]
• Hyphenation: ves?pa

Noun

vespa f (plural vespas)

1. Vespa (brand name)
2. scooter (powered bicycle or tricycle)

Further reading

• “vespa” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

English

Wikispecies

Etymology

From Middle English hernet, from Old English hyrnetu, hyrnete, from Proto-Germanic *hurznut? (compare German Hornisse), alteration of Proto-Germanic *hursul? (compare Dutch horzel), from Proto-Indo-European *?r?h?sro- (“hornet”, literally “the one with horns (antennae)”), from *?erh?- (“horn”) (compare Welsh creyryn (“gadfly”), Latin cr?br? (“hornet”), Lithuanian širš? (“wasp”), Old Church Slavonic ??????? (sr?šen?, “hornet”), Albanian grerë, grenzë (“wasp, hornet”)).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?h??.n?t/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?h??.n?t/
• Rhymes: -??(?)n?t

Noun

hornet (plural hornets)

1. A large wasp, of the genus Vespa, having a brown-and-yellow-striped body and the ability to inflict a serious sting.
2. A person who pesters with petty but ceaseless attacks.

Derived terms

• Asian giant hornet (Vespa mandarinia)
• Asian hornet (Vespa velutina)
• Australian hornet (Abispa ephippium)
• bald-faced hornet, bald hornet (Dolichovespula maculata)
• black-bellied hornet (Vespa basalis)
• black-tailed hornet (Vespa ducalis)
• European hornet (Vespa crabro)
• giant hornet (Vespa crabro germana)
• greater banded hornet (Vespa tropica)
• Japanese hornet (Vespa simillima)
• Japanese yellow hornet (Vespa simillima xanthptera)
• hornet clearwing (Sesia apiformis)
• hornet fly (Asilus spp.)
• hornet moth (Sesia apiformis)
• hornet robberfly, (Asilus crabroniformis)
• lesser banded hornet (Vespa affinis)
• Oriental hornet, (Vespa orientalis)
• paper hornet (Dolichovespula maculata)
• sand hornet (Sphecius speciosus)
• white-faced hornet, white-tailed hornet (Dolichovespula maculata)
• yellow hornet (Vespa simillima xanthoptera)
• yellow-legged hornet (Vespa velutina)

Translations

See also

• bee
• wasp

Anagrams

• 'nother, Rhoten, Theron, Thoren, Thorne, enhort, nother, other'n, throne

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

hornet n

1. definite singular of horn

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

hornet n

1. definite singular of horn

Swedish

Noun

hornet

1. definite singular of horn