Opiliones

See also: opiliones

Translingual

Etymology

From Latin ōpiliōnēs (“shepherds”), a calque of English shepherd spider.[1]

Proper noun

Opiliones

  2. A taxonomic order within the class Arachnida – the harvestmen or daddy longlegs.

Hypernyms

Hyponyms

Descendants

  • → Catalan: opilió
  • → Galician: opilión
  • → Portuguese: opilião
  • → Spanish: opilión

References

  1. ^ Martin Lister's English Spiders, 1678. Ed. John Parker and Basil Hartley (1992). Colchester, Essex: Harley Books. pp. 26 & 30. (Translation of the Latin original, Tractatus de Araneis.)
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