guespe
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Middle French[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Old French guespe, wespe, from a conflation of Latin vespa and Old Frankish *wespa, *wapsa (“wasp”), from Proto-Germanic *wapsō (“wasp”).
Noun[edit]
guespe f (plural guespes)
- wasp (insect)
Descendants[edit]
- French: guêpe
Old French[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From a conflation of Latin vespa and Frankish *wapsu, *wepsu (“wasp”), from Proto-Germanic *wapsō, *wepsō (“wasp”), both ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *wops-éh₂, from *wóps.
Noun[edit]
guespe oblique singular, f (oblique plural guespes, nominative singular guespe, nominative plural guespes)
- wasp (insect)
Descendants[edit]
Categories:
- Middle French terms inherited from Old French
- Middle French terms derived from Old French
- Middle French terms inherited from Latin
- Middle French terms derived from Latin
- Middle French terms derived from Frankish
- Middle French terms derived from Proto-Germanic
- Middle French lemmas
- Middle French nouns
- Middle French feminine nouns
- Middle French countable nouns
- Old French terms inherited from Latin
- Old French terms derived from Latin
- Old French terms borrowed from Frankish
- Old French terms derived from Frankish
- Old French terms derived from Proto-Germanic
- Old French terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Old French lemmas
- Old French nouns
- Old French feminine nouns