Larve
German
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin lārva (“ghost; mask”).
Pronunciation
Noun
Larve f (genitive Larve, plural Larven)
- (zoology) larva (early stage of growth for some insects and amphibians)
- (archaic outside Switzerland, Austria or Southern Germany) mask
- Synonym: Maske
- 1801, Friedrich Schiller, translated by Joseph Mellish, Maria Stuart, page 27:
- Verzeihung / Für diese verhaßte Larve, Königin, / Die mir zu tragen Kampf genug gekostet, / Doch der ich’s danke, daß ich mich euch nahen, / Euch Hülfe und Errettung bringen kann.
- Oh, pardon, / My gracious liege, for the detested mask, / Which it has cost me pain enough to wear; / Yet through such means alone have I the power / To see you, and to bring you help and rescue.
Declension
Derived terms
- Aallarve
- Ameisenlarve
- Amphibienlarve
- Dassellarvenbefall
- Eilarve
- entlarven
- Entlarven
- Ephyralarve
- Fasnachtslarve
- Fischlarve
- Fliegenlarve
- Froschlurchlarve
- Gelsenlarve
- Insektenlarve
- Käferlarve
- Käsefliegenlarve
- Keulenwespenlarve
- Kleidermottenlarve
- Knoblauchkrötenlarve
- larvenähnlich
- Larvenähnlichkeit
- Larvenamarant
- Larvenanpassung
- Larvenart
- larvenartig
- Larvenbiologie
- Larvendasein
- Larvenentwicklung
- Larvenform
- larvenfressend
- Larvenfresser
- Larvengespinst
- Larvengewässer
- Larvenhäkchen
- Larvenhaut
- Larvenhülle
- Larvenökologie
- Larvenphase
- Larvenraupenfänger
- Larvenroller
- Larvensifaka
- Larvenstadium
- larventötend
- Larventötungsmittel
- Larvenwaldsänger
- Larvenzeit
- Leptocephalus-Larve
- Libellenlarve
- Marienkäferlarve
- Moskitolarve
- Mottenlarve
- Mückenlarve
- Nematodenlarve
- Primärlarve
- Prolarve
- Schlammfliegenlarve
- Schlupfwespenlarve
- Schmetterlingslarve
- Schnakenlarve
- Schwanzlurchlarve
- Stechmückenlarve
- Trochophoralarve
- Veligerlarve
- Vorlarve
- Weidenblattlarve
- Wespenlarve
- Zeckenlarve
- Zuckmückenlarve
Related terms
Further reading
- “Larve” in Duden online
- Larve on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia de
- Larve (Maske) on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia de
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