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Italian
Etymology
From Latin blatta (“cockroach, moth”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈblat.ta/
- Rhymes: -atta
- Hyphenation: blàt‧ta
Noun
blatta f (plural blatte)
- (entomology) cockroach
- Synonym: scarafaggio m
Latin
Etymology
No clear etymology. Possibly related to Ancient Greek βλάπτω (bláptō, “to disable, hinder, harm”).[1]
Pronunciation
Noun
blatta f (genitive blattae); first declension
- any insect that shuns the light, e.g. cockroach, moth
- a clot of blood
Declension
First-declension noun.
Derived terms
Descendants
References
- “blatta”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “blatta”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- blatta 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)
- blatta in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “blatta”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “blatta”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin