hornet

Senso (Inglese)

1. A large wasp, of the genus Vespa, having a brown-and-yellow-striped body and the ability to inflict a serious sting.
2. A person who pesters with petty but ceaseless attacks.

Concetti

calabrone

vespa

sinonimi

wasp

bee

🐝

yellow jacket

European hornet

paper wasp

bumblebee

yellowjacket

giant hornet

big

brown hornet

old world hornet

Traduzioni

frelon

Hornisse

crabro

avispón

hoornaar

vespão

horzel

Vespa crabro

abelha-pedreira

αγριομέλισσα

βόμβος

guêpe

eşekarısı

Pronunciato come (IPA)

/ˈhɔː.nɪt/

Etimologia (Inglese)

Ereditato da inglese medio: hernet

Ereditato da inglese antico: hyrnetu

Affine tedesco: Hornisse

Affine olandese: horzel

Affine gallese: creyryn

Affine latino: crābrō

Affine lituano: širšė

Affine slavo ecclesiastico: сръшень

Affine albanese: grerë

In summary

From Middle English hernet, from Old English hyrnetu, hyrnete, from Proto-West Germanic *hurnutu, from Proto-Germanic *hurznutō (compare German Hornisse), alteration of Proto-Germanic *hursulǭ (compare Dutch horzel), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱr̥h₂sro- (“hornet”, literally “the one with horns (antennae)”), from *ḱerh₂- (“horn”) (compare Welsh creyryn (“gadfly”), Latin crābrō (“hornet”), Lithuanian širšė (“wasp”), Proto-Slavic *sьrxy (whence Old Church Slavonic сръшень (srŭšenĭ, “hornet”) and many others), Albanian grerë, grenzë (“wasp, hornet”)).