aranea

See also: Aranea

Interlingua

Noun

aranea (plural araneas)

  1. spider

Latin
arānea (spider)

Etymology

Either from Ancient Greek ἀράχνη (arákhnē) or from the same source. Derivative: arāneus (“spider”).

Pronunciation

Noun

arānea f (genitive arāneae); first declension

  1. spider
  2. spider's web, cobweb
  3. (figuratively) threads similar to spiders' webs

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative arānea arāneae
Genitive arāneae arāneārum
Dative arāneae arāneīs
Accusative arāneam arāneās
Ablative arāneā arāneīs
Vocative arānea arāneae

Synonyms

Derived terms
  • arāneola (“small spider”)
  • arāneōsus (“full of cobwebs or spider's webs; similar to cobwebs; cobwebby”)

Descendants

References
  • “aranea”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “aranea”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • aranea 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)
  • aranea in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
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