wasp

英 [w?sp] 美[wɑsp]

TEM4CET6IELTS低頻詞擴展詞匯昆蟲

復數:?wasps;

wasp 黃蜂

來自PIE*wopsa,編織，構造，來自PIE*webh,編織，紡織，詞源同web,weave.字母p,s置換。用于指黃蜂。

wasp: wasp: [OE] Etymologically, the wasp may be the ‘weaver’. The word comes ultimately from Indo- European *wobhes- or *wops-, which was probably derived from the base *webh-, *wobh- ‘weave’ (source of English weave, web, etc); the allusion is presumably to the papery nest which many species construct. West Germanic took this over as *wabis- or *waps-, and the process of metathesis (reversal of sounds) produced English wasp and German wespe. From the same Indo-European ancestor come Latin vespa (source of French guêpe, Italian vespa, and Spanish avispa) and Russian osa.
=> weave, web
wasp (n.): Old English w?ps, w?sp "wasp," altered (probably by influence of Latin vespa) from Proto-Germanic *wabis- (cognates: Old Saxon waspa, Middle Dutch wespe, Dutch wesp, Old High German wafsa, German Wespe, Danish hveps), from PIE *wopsa-/*wospa- "wasp" (cognates: Latin vespa, Lithuanian vapsa, Old Church Slavonic vosa "wasp," Old Irish foich "drone"), perhaps from *webh- "weave" (see weave (v.)). If that is the correct derivation, the insect would be so called for the shape of its nest. Of persons with wasp-like tendencies, from c. 1500. Wasp-waist in reference to women's figures is recorded from 1870 (wasp-waisted is from 1775).
WASP (n.): acronym for White Anglo-Saxon Protestant, by 1955.

1. The dress exaggerates her wasp waist and enlarges her bosom.: 那件連衣裙凸顯了她的蜂腰，也讓她的胸部看起來更豐滿。