moth

Significado (Inglés)

Noun

1. Any flying insect of the order Lepidoptera not in the superfamily Papilionoidea, most species of which are nocturnal and can be distinguished from butterflies by feather-like antennae.
2. (figuratively) Anything that gradually and silently eats, consumes, or wastes any other thing.

Verb

To hunt for moths.

Conceptos

polilla

mariposa

🦋

mariposa nocturna

heterócero

falena

mosca

✈️

geómetras

Sinónimos

butterfly

🦋

miller

moths

butterflies

insect

beetle

🪲

fly

✈️

bug

🐛

silkworm moth

kind of insect

clothes’ moth

xbutterfly

butterfly moth

true butterfly

true butterflies

butterfly moths

Lepidopter

borer

clothes-moth

grub

lepidopteran

mahogany

mole

bagworm

Traducciones

Motte

tarma

Nachtfalter

falena

mariposa

🦋

mite

mot

arna

papillon de nuit

nachtvlinder

phalène

traça

uiltje

güve

Pronunciado como (IPA)

/mɒθ/

Etimología (Inglés)

Heredado de inglés medio: moth

Heredado de inglés antiguo: moþþe

Cognado con Saterfriesisch: Motte

Cognado con frisón occidental: mot

Cognado con neerlandés: mot

Cognado con alemán: Motte

Cognado con sueco: mott

In summary

From Middle English moth, moththe, motthe, moght, mohþe, mouȝte, from Old English moþþe, mohþe, mohþa (“any destructive insect larva”), from Proto-West Germanic *moþþō, *mottō, from Proto-Germanic *muþþô, *muttô (“moth, worm”), from Proto-Indo-European *mutn-, *mut- (“worm”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian Motte (“moth”), West Frisian mot (“moth”), Dutch mot (“moth”), German Low German Motte, Mott (“moth”), German Motte (“moth”), Swedish mott (“moth”) and Norwegian Nynorsk mott (“moth”).