Noun: avispa
Gender: f
Hyphenation: a‧vis‧pa
| Singular f | avispa |
| Plural f | avispas |
Sample Sentences
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Abiſpa, a waſpe, Veſpa. (Avispa, a wasp, Vespa.) [1591, Richard Percyuall, “Abiſpa”, in Bibliotheca Hispanica. Containg a Grammar, with a Dictionaire in Spanish, English, and Latine […] (in Early Modern English), London: Iohn Iackson, page 56:]
Nouns inflected like avispa
enlatadora,
gencianilla,
paletada,
interneurona,
palestra,
quinacridona,
uridina,
bacinilla,
sopaipilla,
histerectomía,
desaveniencia,
baicaleína,
mesanina,
delicatessen,
hipertrigliceridemia,
teleasistencia,
sequía,
serifa,
seroja,
sesera, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *webʰ-
3. Proto-Indo-European *wóbʰseh₂der.
4. Latin vespa
5. Old Spanish biespa
6. ▲
7. Spanish abejainflu.
8. Spanish avispa
9. Inherited from Old Spanish biespa, from Latin vespa (“wasp”), from Proto-Indo-European *wobʰseh₂ (“wasp”). The initial /a/ may have been added by analogy with abeja (“bee”). For the development of the stressed vowel, compare víspera, níspero. Doublet of vespa. See: Old Spanish Nouns '
biespa', Old Spanish Nouns '
biespa', Latin Nouns '
vespa'.
Verbs referencing "avispa"
Galician Nouns
avespa.
Translations