aranea

See also: Aranea

Interlingua

Noun

aranea (plural araneas)

1. spider

Latin

arānea (spider)

Etymology

Either from Ancient Greek ἀράχνη (arákhnē) (or a byform *ἀράχνεα (*arákhnea)), through an early intermediate like *aragnea, or from the same unknown source. Due to phonetic difficulties, the latter scenario may be more likely.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /aˈraː.ne.a/, [äˈräːneä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /aˈra.ne.a/, [äˈräːneä]

Noun

arānea f (genitive arāneae); first declension

1. spider

   Synonym: arāneus

2. spider's web, cobweb

   Synonym: arāneum

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

Derived terms

• arāneans
• arāneola (“small spider”)
• arāneolus
• arāneōsus (“cobwebby, full of cobwebs”)
• arāneus

 

Related terms

• arāneum

Descendants

• Balkan Romance:
  • Aromanian: arãnji, rãnji
  • Megleno-Romanian: rănă
  • Romanian: râie
• Italo-Romance:
  • Corsican: aragna
  • Italian: aragna, ragna
  • Neapolitan:

    Apulian: aragna, regna

  • Sicilian: rugna

    Calabrian: ragna

• Insular Romance:
  • Sardinian:
    • Campidanese: arangia, arrungia, rungia, orrungia
    • Logudorese: ranza, runza
• North Italian:
  • Emilian: râgna
  • Friulian: rogne
  • Gallo-Italic of Sicily: raja
  • Ligurian: ägna

    Monegasque: aragna

    Western: ragna

  • Romagnol: râgna
  • Venetian: rogna
• Gallo-Romance:
  • Old Catalan: aranya
    • Catalan: aranya, ronya
  • Old Occitan: aranha, eranha
    • Occitan: aranha
  • Franco-Provençal: aragne
  • Old French: araigne, ireigne, roigne
    • Middle French: araigne, hyraigne, rongne
      • French: aragne, araigne, rogne
    • Gallo: irâgne
    • Lorrain: airaigne
    • Poitevin-Saintongeais: éregne, érogne, aregne, iragne, urogne
    • Picard: aronne
    • Walloon: araegne
    • → Middle English: arayne
      • English: arran, arrand (dialectal, obsolete)
  • ⇒ Old French: areignee
    • Middle French: araignee
      • French: araignée
        • Haitian Creole: areye, zariyen
• Ibero-Romance:
  • Aragonese: araina
  • Old Leonese:
    • Asturian: araña
  • Old Galician-Portuguese: aranna
    • Fala: araña
    • Galician: araña
    • Portuguese: aranha
      • Kabuverdianu: aranha
      • Papiamentu: araña
  • Old Spanish: aranna
    • Ladino: aranya
    • Spanish: araña
• Borrowings:
  • → Old English: renġe
  • → Esperanto: araneo
  • → Interlingua: aranea

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.