tarantula

English

Etymology

Via Medieval Latin, from Old Italian tarantola, named after Taranto, a seaport in southern Italy; from Latin Tarentum, from Ancient Greek Τάρᾱς Tarās; compare Modern Greek: Τάραντας Tarantas; Tarantino "Tarde;" ultimately from Illyrian darandos, "oak."

Wikipedia

Wikipedia

A tarantula (Brachypelma smithii)

Noun

tarantula (plural tarantulas or tarantulae)

1. A species of wolf spider, Lycosa tarentula.
2. A "true tarantula", consisting of large, hairy spiders comprising the family Theraphosidae.
3. A member of several other groups of spiders, generally characterized by large size, hairiness, or close relation to family Theraphosidae.

Synonyms

• (true tarantula): bird spider, monkey spider, rain spider

Translations

true tarantula

• Cheyenne: ma'xemo'ôhtáevé'ho'e
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 捕鳥蛛 (cmn), 捕鸟蛛 (cmn) (bǔniǎozhū)

• Dutch: vogelspin (nl) m
• Esperanto: tarantulo (eo)
• Finnish: tarantella (fi), taranteli (fi)
• French: tarentule (fr) f, mygale (fr) f
• German: Vogelspinne (de) f

• Icelandic: tarantúla (is) f
• Italian: tarantola (it) f
• Japanese: オオツチグモ (ja) (ōtsuchigumo) (大土蜘蛛 (ja))
• Navajo: naałʼashí
• Russian: паук-птицеед (ru) (paúk-pticejéd) m, паук-птицеяд (ru) (paúk-pticejád) m
• Spanish: tarántula (es) f
• Swahili: bui (sw)
• Swedish: fågelspindel (sv) c

wolf spider

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 狼蜘蛛 (cmn) (lángzhīzhū)

• Dutch: tarantula (nl) m
• Finnish: tarantella (fi), taranteli (fi)
• French: tarentule (fr) f, mygale (fr) f
• German: Tarantel (de) f

• Italian: tarantola (it) f
• Japanese: コモリグモ (ja) (komorigumo) (子守蜘蛛 (ja)), タランチュラ (ja) (taranchura)
• Persian: رتیل (fa) (roteyl)
• Russian: тарантул (ru) (tarántul) m

See also

• tarantella
• tarantism