Feminine
guêpe
Meaning
wasp (any of many types of stinging flying insects resembling a hornet, normally of the suborder Apocrita)
Concepts
Vespidae
white Anglo-Saxon Protestant
Synonyms
Translations
Wespe
vespa
avispa
vespa
wesp
σφήκα
vespa
vespa
yaban arısı
vèspa
دَبُّورFrequency
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ɡɛp/
Etymology
In summary
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *webʰ- Proto-Indo-European *wóbʰseh₂der. Latin vespa Proto-Indo-European *wóbʰseh₂ Proto-Germanic *wapsō Frankish *wapsuinflu. Old French guespe Middle French guespe French guêpe Inherited from Middle French guespe, from Old French guespe, wespe, wapce (“hornet, wasp”), from a conflation of Latin vespa (“wasp”), and Frankish *wapsu; both from Proto-Indo-European *wóbʰseh₂ (“wasp”).
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