weevil

Signification (Anglais)

1. Any of many tens of thousands of species of herbivorous beetles, ranging in size from tiny to large, in the superfamily Curculionoidea, the most characteristic species having the head projecting in a distinctive snout with the mouthparts at the tip.
2. Any of many tens of thousands of species of herbivorous beetles of various sizes, in the family Curculionidae within the superfamily Curculionoidea.
3. Any of many similar, but more distantly related, beetles such as the biscuit weevil (Stegobium paniceum).
4. (derogatory, figuratively) A loathsome person.

Concepts

charançon

coccinelle

abasourdir

curculionoidea

balanin

weevil

Curculionoidea

Synonymes

snout beetle

plant-louse

grub

chrysalis

curculio

hickey

whatchamacallit

woodworm

wood worm

worm

🪱

aphis

moth-worm

beetle

🪲

caterpillar

🐛

Traductions

gorgojo

Rüsselkäfer

curculio

snuitkever

punteruolo

curculionide

corc

🪱

gorgulho

Curculionidae

Curculionoidea

kurtlu

camola

balanino

Holzwurm

σιταρόψειρα

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/ˈwiːv(ə)l/

Étymologie (Anglais)

Hérité de moyen anglais: wevel

Hérité de ancien anglais: wifel

Appartenant à Old Saxon: *wivil

Appartenant à Middle Low German: wevel

Appartenant à ancien haut allemand: wibil

Appartenant à allemand: Wiebel

Appartenant à lituanien: vãbalas

Appartenant à vieux norrois: vifill

Appartenant à néerlandais: tortwevel

Appartenant à islandais: tordýfill

Appartenant à norvégien: tordivel

Appartenant à ancien anglais: tordwifel

Appartenant à suédois: tordyvel

Appartenant à russe: ве́блица

In summary

From Middle English wevel, from Old English wifel (“beetle”), from Proto-West Germanic *wibil, from Proto-Germanic *wibilaz, from Proto-Indo-European *webʰel-, from *(h₁)webʰ- (“to wave, to weave”), said to be from the woven appearance of a weevil’s larval case, + *-el-, *-l̥- (diminutive or attributive suffix); see also wave and weave.
Compare Old Saxon *wivil (“beetle”); Middle Low German wevel; Old High German wibil, wipil (modern German Wiebel (“beetle; chafer”)); Lithuanian vãbalas (“beetle; weevil”); Old Norse vifill, as in tordyfill (“dung beetle, scarab”) (whence Dutch tortwevel; Icelandic tordýfill, Norwegian tordivel, Old English tordwifel, Swedish tordyvel); dialectal Russian ве́блица (véblica, “intestinal worm”).

Phrases

Pollination is by certain insects , namely the belid weevil "Rhopalotria mollis".

La pollinisation est de certains insectes, à savoir le wevil de Belid "Rhopalotria mollis".