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Vespa

wasp

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Where it lives

Fabulae Aesopiae 3 · 2.74/10k
Naturalis Historia 18 · 0.45/10k
De Anima 1 · 0.42/10k
Historiae 1 · 0.19/10k
De Oratore 1 · 0.17/10k
Adversus Marcionem 1 · 0.12/10k

What it meant

1. vespa — de Vaan

vespa 'wasp' [f. a] (Varro+) Pit *we/op-s-h2- 'wasp'. PIE *(hi)uobh-s-h2- 'wasp'. IE cognates: OCo. guhi-en 'a wasp', MW gw(y)chi, OBret guohi 'wasps'; Αν. vafizaka- 'scorpion', MP ναβζ, BaL gwabz 'wasp' < PIr. *wabza-\ OPr. wobse, Lith. vapsva, vapsa (dial.), Latv. vapsene 'wasp', RuCS osa, Ru. osa, SCn osa (< BSL *uapsa); OE wcefs, weeps, wcesp OHG wefsa, wqfsa, waspa, Bav. webes. It is questionable whether 'wasp' … — [de Vaan, s.v. vespa, p. 684]

2. vespa — Lewis & Short

vespa, ae, f.Gr. sfh/c; O. H. Germ. wefsa; Engl. wasp,

I a wasp, Varr. R. R. 3, 16, 19; Plin. 11, 21, 24, § 71; 20, 13, 51, § 133; Phaedr. 3, 13, 3.

In the wild

vesparumque Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 23.7.p2
Vespa Cicero, De Oratore 2.253
vespis Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 1.11.p23
vespae Tertullian, Adversus Marcionem 4.5
vespis Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 28.3
vespam Phaedrus, Fabulae Aesopiae appendix.29.1

6 of 25 attestations shown.

Where it came from

de Vaan, Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Brill 2008) Treated in de Vaan, Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Brill 2008) s.v. vespa (scan p. 684; entry #1966).
Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine Treated in Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine s.v. uespa (scan p. 752; entry #12564).

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