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wasp
English
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /w?sp/
- (General American) IPA(key): /w?sp/
- (obsolete) IPA(key): /wæsp/
Etymology 1
From Middle English wasp, waspe, waps, from Old English wæsp, wæps (“wasp”), from Proto-Germanic *waps?, from Proto-Indo-European *wob?seh? (“wasp”), from *web?- (“weave”) (referring to the insect's woven nests). Compare Dutch wesp, German Wespe, Danish hveps. The metathesis of s and p reflects a process of some generality in Old English, cf. ascian ~ acsian (“to ask”); here, Latin vespa (“wasp”) (also a cognate- cf. Old French wespe) may have helped tilt the scales in favour of -sp.
Noun
wasp (plural wasps)
- Any of many types of stinging flying insect resembling a hornet.
- (entomology) Any of the members of suborder Apocrita, excepting the ants (family Formicidae) and bees (clade Anthophila).
- Any of the members of the family Vespidae.
- A person who behaves in an angry or insolent way, hence waspish.
Derived terms
Descendants
- Sranan Tongo: waswasi (reduplicated)
Translations
See also
- bee
- hornet
Etymology 2
Originally an acronym for White Anglo-Saxon Protestant.
Noun
wasp (plural wasps)
- Alternative letter-case form of WASP (“White Anglo-Saxon Protestant”)
References
Further reading
- wasp on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Anagrams
- APWs, AWPs, WAPs, WSPA, paws, spaw, swap, waps
Middle English
Alternative forms
- wappes, waps, waspe
Etymology
From Old English wæps, wæsp, from Proto-Germanic *waps?, from Proto-Indo-European *wob?séh?.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /wasp/
Noun
wasp (plural waspes)
- wasp
Descendants
- English: wasp
- Sranan Tongo: waswasi (reduplicated)
- Scots: wasp, wesp
References
- “wasp, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-07-17.
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vespiary
English
Etymology
From Latin vespa (“wasp”), formed in imitation of apiary (a similar structure for bees).
Noun
vespiary (plural vespiaries)
- A nest built by a social wasp species.
- A colony of wasps living in such a nest.
Translations
References
- Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary, Springfield, Massachusetts, G.&C. Merriam Co., 1967
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