Wraios

Translingual

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ὡραῖος (hōraîos, “seasonable, timely”), though not recognizing the spiritus asper and using an unorthodox, non-Latinate transliteration.

Coined by arachnologist Francesco Ballarin and by Chinese zoologist Shuqiang Li in 2015.

Proper noun

Wraios m

  1. A taxonomic genus within the family Nesticidae – Wraios longiembolus; certain araneoid spiders of western China.

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