Masculí

insecto

Significat (Anglès)

insect

Conceptes

pastereta

Freqüència

C1
Amb guionet com a
in‧sec‧to
Pronunciat com a (IPA)
/inˈseɡto/
Etimologia (Anglès)

In summary

Borrowed from Latin īnsecta (“insects”) (attested in Pliny only in the plural), a calque of ἔντομα (éntoma, “insects”, literally “dissected”), from their segmented bodies, from εν- (en-) + τόμος (tómos, “slice”); calqued based on īnsectus (“notched, dissected”), perfect passive participle of īnsecō.

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