weevil

Significado (Inglês)

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.

Conceitos

gorgulho

Caruncho

Sinônimos

snout beetle

plant-louse

grub

chrysalis

curculio

hickey

whatchamacallit

woodworm

wood worm

worm

🪱

aphis

moth-worm

beetle

🪲

caterpillar

🐛

Traduções

gorgojo

charançon

Rüsselkäfer

snuitkever

curculio

punteruolo

corc

🪱

kurtlu

Curculionoidea

Curculionidae

curculionide

coccinelle

abasourdir

Curculionoidea

Holzwurm

Pronunciado como (IPA)

/ˈwiːv(ə)l/

Etimologia (Inglês)

Herdado de inglês médio: wevel

Herdado de inglês arcaico: wifel

Cognato com Old Saxon: *wivil

Cognato com Middle Low German: wevel

Cognato com alemão arcaico alto: wibil

Cognato com alemão: Wiebel

Cognato com lituano: vãbalas

Cognato com nórdico arcaico: vifill

Cognato com holandês: tortwevel

Cognato com islandês: tordýfill

Cognato com norueguês: tordivel

Cognato com inglês arcaico: tordwifel

Cognato com sueco: tordyvel

Cognato com russo: 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”).

Frases

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

A polinização é por certos insetos, a saber, o gorgulho "Rhopalotria Mollis".