insecto

Senso (Inglese)

insect

Con trattino come

in‧sec‧to

Genere

♂️ Maschile

Pronunciato come (IPA)

/inˈseɡto/

Etimologia (Inglese)

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.