avispa

Spanish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /aˈbispa/ [aˈβ̞is.pa]
  • Audio (Spain):(file)
  • Rhymes: -ispa
  • Syllabification: a‧vis‧pa

Etymology 1

    Etymology tree
    Proto-Indo-European *webʰ-
    Proto-Indo-European *wóbʰseh₂der.
    Latin vespa
    Old Spanish biespa
    Latin apis
    Latin -cula
    Latin apicula
    Old Spanish abeja
    Spanish abejainflu.
    Spanish avispa

    Inherited from Old Spanish biespa, from Latin vespa, from Proto-Indo-European *wobʰseh₂ (“wasp”), from *webʰ- (“to weave”). The initial /a/ may have been added by analogy with abeja (“bee”). For the development of the stressed vowel, compare víspera, níspero. Doublet of vespa.

    Alternative forms

    Noun

    avispa f (plural avispas)

    1. wasp (any of many types of stinging flying insects resembling a hornet, normally of the suborder Apocrita)
      • 1591, Richard Percyuall, “Abiſpa”, in Bibliotheca Hispanica. Containg a Grammar, with a Dictionaire in Spanish, English, and Latine […] (in Early Modern English), London: Iohn Iackson, page 56:
        Abiſpa, a waſpe, Veſpa.
        Avispa, a wasp, Vespa.
    2. (colloquial) quick-tempered person
    Derived terms

    Etymology 2

    Verb

    avispa

    1. inflection of avispar:
      1. third-person singular present indicative
      2. second-person singular imperative

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