vespa
Catalan
editEtymology
editInherited from Old Catalan vespa, from Latin vespa, from Proto-Indo-European *wobʰseh₂ (“wasp”), from *webʰ- (“to weave”).
Pronunciation
edit- IPA(key): (Central) [ˈbes.pə]
- IPA(key): (Balearic) [ˈves.pə]
- IPA(key): (Valencia) [ˈves.pa]
Audio: (file)
Noun
editvespa f (plural vespes)
Related terms
editReferences
edit- “vespa” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “vespa”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
- “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
editEtymology
editGeneralized from the Italian motor scooter brand name Vespa.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editvespa (informal)
- scooter (motorcycle or moped equipped with a platform for the operator's feet)
Declension
editInflection of vespa (Kotus type 9/kala, no gradation) | |||
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nominative | vespa | vespat | |
genitive | vespan | vespojen | |
partitive | vespaa | vespoja | |
illative | vespaan | vespoihin | |
singular | plural | ||
nominative | vespa | vespat | |
accusative | nom. | vespa | vespat |
gen. | vespan | ||
genitive | vespan | vespojen vespain rare | |
partitive | vespaa | vespoja | |
inessive | vespassa | vespoissa | |
elative | vespasta | vespoista | |
illative | vespaan | vespoihin | |
adessive | vespalla | vespoilla | |
ablative | vespalta | vespoilta | |
allative | vespalle | vespoille | |
essive | vespana | vespoina | |
translative | vespaksi | vespoiksi | |
abessive | vespatta | vespoitta | |
instructive | — | vespoin | |
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
Synonyms
editFrench
editNoun
editvespa f (plural vespas)
References
edit- “vespa”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Galician
editNoun
editvespa f (plural vespas)
- Alternative form of avespa (“wasp”)
Icelandic
editPronunciation
edit- Rhymes: -ɛspa
Noun
editvespa f (genitive singular vespu, nominative plural vespur)
Declension
editInterlingua
editNoun
editvespa (plural vespas)
Related terms
editItalian
editEtymology
editFrom Latin vespa, from Proto-Indo-European *wobʰseh₂ (“wasp”), from *webʰ- (“to weave”).
Pronunciation
editNoun
editvespa f (plural vespe)
- wasp
- (motorcycling) Alternative letter-case form of Vespa; motor scooter
- Coordinate term: lambretta
Derived terms
editFurther reading
edit- Vespidae on the Italian Wikipedia.Wikipedia it
- Piaggio Vespa on the Italian Wikipedia.Wikipedia it
Latin
editEtymology
editFrom Proto-Italic *wospā, metathesized from earlier Proto-Italic *wopsā, from Proto-Indo-European *wops-éh₂, from *wóps; see also wasp.
Pronunciation
edit- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈu̯es.pa/, [ˈu̯ɛs̠pä]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈves.pa/, [ˈvɛspä]
Noun
editvespa f (genitive vespae); first declension
Declension
editFirst-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | vespa | vespae |
Genitive | vespae | vespārum |
Dative | vespae | vespīs |
Accusative | vespam | vespās |
Ablative | vespā | vespīs |
Vocative | vespa | vespae |
Derived terms
edit- vespōsus (“waspy”)
Descendants
edit- Balkan Romance:
- Gallo-Italic:
- Ibero-Romance:
- Italo-Romance:
- Òc:
- Oïl:
- Influenced by Frankish *wapsa:
- Rhaeto-Romance:
- Sardinian:
- Borrowings:
See also
editReferences
edit- “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 with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- Meyer-Lübke, Wilhelm (1911) “vĕspa”, in Romanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), page 707
Piedmontese
editNoun
editvespa f (plural vespe)
Related terms
editPortuguese
editPronunciation
edit
- Hyphenation: ves‧pa
Etymology 1
editFrom Old Galician-Portuguese vespa, from Latin vespa,[1][2] from Proto-Indo-European *wobʰseh₂ (“wasp”), from *webʰ- (“to weave”).
Noun
editvespa f (plural vespas)
Related terms
editEtymology 2
editBorrowed from Italian Vespa.[1][2]
Noun
editvespa f (plural vespas)
References
edit- ↑ 1.0 1.1 “vespa”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 “vespa”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2024
Further reading
edit- “vespa”, in iDicionário Aulete (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2024
- “vespa”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2024
Serbo-Croatian
editEtymology
editPronunciation
editNoun
editvȅspa f (Cyrillic spelling ве̏спа)
Declension
editReferences
edit- “vespa” in Hrvatski jezični portal
Sicilian
editEtymology
editPronunciation
editNoun
editvespa f (plural vespi)
Spanish
editEtymology
editBorrowed from Italian vespa. Doublet of avispa.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editvespa f (plural vespas)
Derived terms
editFurther reading
edit- “vespa”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
Swedish
editEtymology
editGenericized trademark from the Italian motor scooter brand Vespa.
Noun
editvespa c
- a motor scooter (small motorcycle or moped with a step-through frame)
Declension
editDeclension of vespa | ||||
---|---|---|---|---|
Singular | Plural | |||
Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
Nominative | vespa | vespan | vespor | vesporna |
Genitive | vespas | vespans | vespors | vespornas |
References
edit- Catalan terms inherited from Old Catalan
- Catalan terms derived from Old Catalan
- Catalan terms inherited from Latin
- Catalan terms derived from Latin
- Catalan terms inherited from Proto-Indo-European
- Catalan terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Catalan terms with IPA pronunciation
- Catalan terms with audio links
- Catalan lemmas
- Catalan nouns
- Catalan countable nouns
- Catalan feminine nouns
- ca:Hymenopterans
- Finnish terms borrowed from Italian
- Finnish terms derived from Italian
- Finnish 2-syllable words
- Finnish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Finnish/espɑ
- Rhymes:Finnish/espɑ/2 syllables
- Finnish lemmas
- Finnish nouns
- Finnish informal terms
- Finnish kala-type nominals
- French lemmas
- French nouns
- French countable nouns
- French feminine nouns
- Galician lemmas
- Galician nouns
- Galician countable nouns
- Galician feminine nouns
- gl:Hymenopterans
- Rhymes:Icelandic/ɛspa
- Rhymes:Icelandic/ɛspa/2 syllables
- Icelandic lemmas
- Icelandic nouns
- Icelandic feminine nouns
- Icelandic countable nouns
- Interlingua lemmas
- Interlingua nouns
- Italian terms inherited from Latin
- Italian terms derived from Latin
- Italian terms inherited from Proto-Indo-European
- Italian terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Italian 2-syllable words
- Italian terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Italian/ɛspa
- Rhymes:Italian/ɛspa/2 syllables
- Italian terms with audio links
- Italian lemmas
- Italian nouns
- Italian countable nouns
- Italian feminine nouns
- it:Motorcycles
- it:Insects
- Latin terms inherited from Proto-Italic
- Latin terms derived from Proto-Italic
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- Latin terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Latin 2-syllable words
- Latin terms with IPA pronunciation
- Latin lemmas
- Latin nouns
- Latin first declension nouns
- Latin feminine nouns in the first declension
- Latin feminine nouns
- la:Insects
- Piedmontese lemmas
- Piedmontese nouns
- Piedmontese feminine nouns
- pms:Insects
- Portuguese 2-syllable words
- Portuguese terms with IPA pronunciation
- Portuguese terms inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese
- Portuguese terms derived from Old Galician-Portuguese
- Portuguese terms inherited from Latin
- Portuguese terms derived from Latin
- Portuguese terms inherited from Proto-Indo-European
- Portuguese terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Portuguese lemmas
- Portuguese nouns
- Portuguese countable nouns
- Portuguese feminine nouns
- Portuguese terms borrowed from Italian
- Portuguese terms derived from Italian
- pt:Insects
- Serbo-Croatian terms borrowed from Italian
- Serbo-Croatian terms derived from Italian
- Serbo-Croatian terms with IPA pronunciation
- Serbo-Croatian lemmas
- Serbo-Croatian nouns
- Serbo-Croatian feminine nouns
- Serbo-Croatian informal terms
- Sicilian terms inherited from Latin
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- scn:Insects
- Spanish terms borrowed from Italian
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- Spanish doublets
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- Rhymes:Spanish/espa
- Rhymes:Spanish/espa/2 syllables
- Spanish lemmas
- Spanish nouns
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- Spanish feminine nouns
- es:Vehicles
- Spanish genericized trademarks
- Swedish terms borrowed from Italian
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- Swedish lemmas
- Swedish nouns
- Swedish common-gender nouns
- Swedish genericized trademarks