Noun: guêpe
Gender: f
Hyphenation:
| Singular f | guêpe |
| Plural f | guêpes |
Sample Sentences
Nouns inflected like guêpe
polémochorie,
kératotomie,
farigoule,
compréhension,
palestre,
abnégation,
hyperuricémie,
psychométrie,
minicassette,
piézo-électricité,
potabilité,
aromathérapie,
conjugalité,
conjugaison,
cohésion,
obscurité,
bacillose,
cohæsion,
aponévrotomie,
sylvie, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *webʰ-
3. Proto-Indo-European *wóbʰseh₂der.
4. Latin vespa
5. ▲
6. Frankish *wapsuinflu.
7. Old French guespe
8. Middle French guespe
9. French guêpe
10. 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”). See: Latin Nouns '
vespa'.
Verbs referencing "guêpe"
German Nouns
Wespe.
Translations