tippula

Latin

Etymology

Diminutive of a borrowing from Ancient Greek τίφη (típhē, “water spider, type of beetle”), a word of non-Indo-European (likely Pre-Greek substrate) origin.^[1]^[2] This word is also glossed as "einkorn wheat" but that sense is likely separate.

Pronunciation

(Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈtɪp.pʊ.ɫa]
(modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈt̪ip.pu.la]

Noun

tippula f (genitive tippulae); first declension

an insect running across the surface of the water, a pond-skater; a water spider
- c. 197 BCE, Plautus, Persa 2.2.62:
  noui: omnes sunt lenae leuifidae, nec tippulae leuius pondust quam fides lenonia.
  I know: all procuresses are untrustworthy, and a water spider has more weight than a procuress’s promise.

Declension

First-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	tippula	tippulae
genitive	tippulae	tippulārum
dative	tippulae	tippulīs
accusative	tippulam	tippulās
ablative	tippulā	tippulīs
vocative	tippula	tippulae

Descendants

Catalan: típula
English: tipula, tipulid
Esperanto: tipolo
French: tipule
Italian: tipula
Portuguese: típula
Spanish: típula
Translingual: Tipula

References

“tippula”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press

^ Roberts, Edward A. (2014) A Comprehensive Etymological Dictionary of the Spanish Language with Families of Words based on Indo-European Roots, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN, p. 615
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[1] Roberts, Edward A. (2014) A Comprehensive Etymological Dictionary of the Spanish Language with Families of Words based on Indo-European Roots, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN, p. 615

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