blatta

From Latin blatta (“cockroach, moth”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈblat.ta/
• Rhymes: -atta
• Hyphenation: blàt‧ta

blatta f (plural blatte)

1. (entomology) cockroach

   Synonym: scarafaggio m

No clear etymology. Possibly related to Ancient Greek βλάπτω (bláptō, “to disable, hinder, harm”).^[1]

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈbɫat.ta]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈblat̪.t̪a]

blatta f (genitive blattae); first declension

1. any insect that shuns the light, e.g. cockroach, moth
2. a clot of blood

First-declension noun.

• “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