aranea

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Interlingua

Noun

aranea (plural araneas)

  1. spider

Latin

arānea (spider)

Etymology

Either from Ancient Greek ἀράχνη (arákhnē) (or a byform *ἀράχνεα (*arákhnea)), through an early intermediate like *aragnea, or from the same unknown source. Due to phonetic difficulties, the latter scenario may be more likely.

Pronunciation

Noun

arānea f (genitive arāneae); first declension

  1. spider
    Synonym: arāneus
  2. spider's web, cobweb
    Synonym: arāneum
  3. (figuratively) threads similar to spiders' webs

Declension

First-declension noun.

singular plural
nominative arānea arāneae
genitive arāneae arāneārum
dative arāneae arāneīs
accusative arāneam arāneās
ablative arāneā arāneīs
vocative arānea arāneae

Derived terms

Descendants

References

  • “aranea”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “aranea”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • aranea in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • aranea in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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