insecto

insecto m (plural insectos)

1. insect

īnsectō

1. dative/ablative masculine/neuter singular of īnsectus

• “insecto”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• insecto 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)
• insecto in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
• insecto in Ramminger, Johann (accessed 16 July 2016) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎, pre-publication website, 2005-2016

insecto m (plural insectos)

1. Superseded spelling of inseto. (Superseded in Brazil by the 1943 spelling reform and by the Portuguese Language Orthographic Agreement of 1990 elsewhere. Still used in countries where the agreement hasn’t come into effect.)

• IPA^(key): [inˈsekto]

insecto f

1. vocative singular of insectă

Borrowed from Latin īnsecta (“insects”) (attested in Pliny only in the plural), a calque of ἔντομα (éntoma, “insects”, literally “dissected”), from their segmented bodies, from εν- (en-) + τόμος (tómos, “slice”); calqued based on īnsectus (“notched, dissected”), perfect passive participle of īnsecō.

• IPA^(key): /inˈseɡto/ [ĩnˈseɣ̞.t̪o]

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• Rhymes: -eɡto
• Syllabification: in‧sec‧to

insecto m (plural insectos)

1. insect

• bicho

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