vespa

From Old Occitan vespa, from Latin vespa, from Proto-Indo-European *wobʰseh₂ (“wasp”), from *webʰ- (“to weave”).

• (Balearic) IPA^(key): /ˈves.pə/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /ˈbes.pə/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /ˈves.pa/

vespa f (plural vespes)

1. wasp

• vesper

Generalized from the Italian motor scooter brand name Vespa.

• IPA^(key): /ˈʋespɑ/, [ˈʋe̞s̠pɑ]

vespa

1. (informal) scooter (motorcycle or moped equipped with a platform for the operator's feet)

• skootteri

vespa f (plural vespas)

1. Alternative form of avespa

• Rhymes: -ɛspa

vespa f (genitive singular vespu, nominative plural vespur)

1. hornet

vespa (plural vespas)

1. wasp

• vespere
• vespiario

From Latin vespa, from Proto-Indo-European *wobʰseh₂ (“wasp”), from *webʰ- (“to weave”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈvɛspa/
• Hyphenation: vè‧spa

vespa f (plural vespe)

1. wasp
2. motor scooter (originally capitalised)

• vespaio
• vespino
• vespone

From Proto-Indo-European *wobʰseh₂ (“wasp”), from *webʰ- (“weave”) (referring to the insect's woven nests). Cognate with Old Breton guohi, English wasp (derivations including Italian Vespa, scooter), Lithuanian vapsvà, Russian оса (osá). The word is also related to English web and weave.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈwes.pa/, [ˈwɛs.pa]

vespa f (genitive vespae); first declension

1. wasp

First declension.

• vespōsus (“waspy”)

• apis f
• crabro

• vespa in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• vespa in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• vespa in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)

vespa f (plural vespe)

1. wasp

• vespé
• vespun

From Old Portuguese vespa, from Latin vespa, from Proto-Indo-European *wobʰseh₂ (“wasp”), from *webʰ- (“to weave”).

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈveʃpɐ/
• Hyphenation: ves‧pa

vespa f (plural vespas)

1. wasp

• vespão
• vespeiro

Borrowed from Italian vespa.

• IPA^(key): /ʋêspa/
• Hyphenation: ves‧pa

vȅspa f (Cyrillic spelling ве̏спа)

1. (informal) motor scooter

• “vespa” in Hrvatski jezični portal

From Latin vespa.

• IPA^(key): /ˈvɛspa/, [ˈvɛʃpa]
• Hyphenation: vès‧pa

vespa f (plural vespi)

1. wasp

Borrowed from Italian vespa. Doublet of avispa.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbespa/
• Hyphenation: ves‧pa

vespa f (plural vespas)

1. Vespa (brand name)
2. scooter (powered bicycle or tricycle)

• “vespa” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.