vespa

From Old Catalan vespa, from Latin vespa, from Proto-Indo-European *wobʰseh₂ (“wasp”), from *webʰ- (“to weave”).

• (Balearic) IPA^(key): /ˈves.pə/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /ˈbes.pə/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /ˈves.pa/

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vespa f (plural vespes)

1. wasp

• vesper

• “vespa” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “vespa”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2023
• “vespa” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “vespa” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Generalized from the Italian motor scooter brand name Vespa.

• IPA^(key): /ˈʋespɑ/, [ˈʋe̞s̠pɑ]
• Rhymes: -espɑ
• Syllabification^(key): ves‧pa

vespa

1. (informal) scooter (motorcycle or moped equipped with a platform for the operator's feet)

• skootteri

vespa f (plural vespas)

1. Vespa

• “vespa”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

vespa f (plural vespas)

1. Alternative form of avespa (“wasp”)

• Rhymes: -ɛspa

vespa f (genitive singular vespu, nominative plural vespur)

1. hornet

vespa (plural vespas)

1. wasp

• vespere
• vespiario

From Latin vespa, from Proto-Indo-European *wobʰseh₂ (“wasp”), from *webʰ- (“to weave”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈvɛ.spa/
• Rhymes: -ɛspa
• Hyphenation: vè‧spa

vespa f (plural vespe)

1. wasp
2. (motorcycling) Alternative letter-case form of Vespa; motor scooter

   Coordinate term: lambretta

• vespaio
• vespina
• vespone
• vespetta

• Vespidae on the Italian Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^it
• Piaggio Vespa on the Italian Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^it

From Proto-Italic *wospā, metathesized from earlier Proto-Italic *wopsā, from Proto-Indo-European *wops-éh₂, from *wóps.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈu̯es.pa/, [ˈu̯ɛs̠pä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈves.pa/, [ˈvɛspä]

vespa f (genitive vespae); first declension

1. wasp

First-declension noun.

• vespōsus (“waspy”)

• apis
• crabro

• “vespa”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “vespa”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• vespa 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)
• Meyer-Lübke, Wilhelm (1911), “vĕspa”, in Romanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), page 707

vespa f (plural vespe)

1. wasp

• vespé
• vespun

• Hyphenation: ves‧pa

From Old Portuguese vespa, from Latin vespa,[1][2] from Proto-Indo-European *wobʰseh₂ (“wasp”), from *webʰ- (“to weave”).

vespa f (plural vespas)

1. wasp

• vespão
• vespeiro

From Italian Vespa.[1][2]

vespa f (plural vespas)

1. motor scooter

• “vespa” in iDicionário Aulete.
• “vespa” in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa.

Borrowed from Italian vespa.

• IPA^(key): /ʋêspa/
• Hyphenation: ves‧pa

vȅspa f (Cyrillic spelling ве̏спа)

1. (informal) motor scooter

• “vespa” in Hrvatski jezični portal

From Latin vespa.

• IPA^(key): /ˈvɛspa/, [ˈvɛʃpa]
• Hyphenation: vès‧pa

vespa f (plural vespi)

1. wasp

Borrowed from Italian vespa. Doublet of avispa.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbespa/ [ˈbes.pa]
• Rhymes: -espa
• Syllabification: ves‧pa

vespa f (plural vespas)

1. Vespa (brand name)
2. scooter (powered bicycle or tricycle)

• vespino

• “vespa”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

Genericized trademark from the Italian motor scooter brand Vespa.

vespa c

1. a motor scooter (small motorcycle or moped with a step-through frame)

   Synonyms: scooter, (when clear from context) skoter

• vespa in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• vespa in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• vespa in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)