chrysalis

English

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin chrysalis, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Ancient Greek χρυσαλλίς (khrusallís), from χρυσός (khrusós, “gold”), because of the color of some of them.

Pronunciation

• enPR: krĭʹsəlĭs, IPA^(key): /ˈkɹɪsəlɪs/

Noun

chrysalis (plural chrysalises or chrysalides)

1. The pupa of a butterfly or moth, enclosed inside a cocoon, in which metamorphosis takes place
   • 1929, M. Barnard Eldershaw, A House Is Built, Chapter VII, Section viii

     Fanny was afraid. She was like an insect new-hatched from its chrysalis, naked and unprotected in a dawn she could not face.

2. The cocoon itself.
3. (figurative) A strong constraint.
   • 1898, Winston Churchill, chapter 1, in The Celebrity:

     However, with the dainty volume my quondam friend sprang into fame. At the same time he cast off the chrysalis of a commonplace existence.

Translations

the pupa of a butterfly or moth

• Armenian: հարսնյակ (hy) (harsnyak)
• Asturian: crisálida f
• Belarusian: ку́калка f (kúkalka), ля́лечка f (ljálječka)
• Bulgarian: какавида f (kakavida)
• Catalan: crisàlide (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 蝶蛹 (zh) (diéyǒng), 蛹 (zh) (yǒng)

• Czech: kukla (cs) f
• Dutch: pop (nl) f
• Estonian: nukk
• Finnish: kotelo (fi)
• French: chrysalide (fr) f
• Galician: crisálide f, crisálida f
• Georgian: ჭუპრი (č̣uṗri)
• German: Puppe (de) f
• Greek: χρυσαλλίδα (el) f (chrysallída)
• Hungarian: báb (hu)
• Italian: crisalide (it)
• Japanese: 蛹 (ja) (さなぎ, sanagi)
• Korean: 번데기 (beondegi)
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• Malay: kepompong
• Maori: tūngoungou
• Pitjantjatjara: impi
• Polish: poczwarka (pl) f
• Portuguese: crisálida f, crisálide f
• Romanian: pupă (ro) f
• Russian: ку́колка (ru) f (kúkolka), хризали́да f (xrizalída)
• Scottish Gaelic: cochall m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Roman: kukuljica (sh) f, lutka (sh) f

• Slovak: kukla f
• Slovene: buba (sl) f
• Spanish: crisálida f
• Tagalog: tilas
• Thai: ดักแด้ (th) (dàk-dɛ̂ɛ)
• Ukrainian: ля́лечка f (ljálečka)
• Vietnamese: nhộng (vi)
• Volapük: krüsalid (vo)