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avispa

Pronunciation: /aˈbispa/

“avispa” is a Spanish word. Its 2 meanings in English:

noun

  1. wasp (any of many types of stinging flying insects resembling a hornet, normally of the suborder Apocrita)
  2. quick-tempered person

In Spanish

  1. (suborden Apocrita) Cualquiera de varios miles de especies de insectos himenópteros, estrechamente relacionados con las hormigas y abejas, de las que se distinguen por no tener el basitarso aplanado y carecer de pelos plumosos; son por lo general predadores y parásitos, dotados de un ovipositor que en algunas especies está modificado para servir como aguijón.
  2. Persona irascible.

Etymology

Inherited from Old Spanish biespa, from Latin vespa (“wasp”), from Proto-Indo-European *wobʰseh₂ (“wasp”). The initial /a/ may have been added by analogy with abeja (“bee”). For the development of the stressed vowel, compare víspera, níspero. Doublet of vespa.

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