insect

Etymology
From, from , from , from perfect passive participle of , from + , from the notion that the insect's body is "cut into" three sections (head, thorax, abdomen). , from.

Noun

 * 1) An arthropod (in the  class) characterized by six legs, up to four wings, and a chitinous exoskeleton.
 * 2)  Any small arthropod similar to an insect, including spiders, centipedes, millipedes, etc.
 * 3)  A contemptible or powerless person.
 * 1)  Any small arthropod similar to an insect, including spiders, centipedes, millipedes, etc.
 * 2)  A contemptible or powerless person.
 * 1)  A contemptible or powerless person.

Translations

 * Afrikaans:
 * Albanian: ,
 * Amharic: ነፍሳት
 * Arabic: حَشَرَة
 * Egyptian Arabic: حشرة
 * South Levantine Arabic: حشرة
 * Armenian:
 * Assamese: পোক
 * Asturian:
 * Azerbaijani: ,
 * Bashkir: бөжәк
 * Basque: ,
 * Belarusian: насяко́мае, казу́рка, вуся́к, гмыз
 * Bengali:
 * Breton:
 * Bulgarian:, инсе́кт
 * Burmese: ,
 * Carpathian Rusyn: хроба́к, хро́бач
 * Catalan:
 * Chamicuro: sokajsu
 * Cherokee: ᏍᎪᏱ
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 昆蟲,
 * Dungan: чун, чунчунзы, чунчур
 * Eastern Min: 蟲囝, 蟲蟻
 * Hakka: 昆蟲, 蟲仔
 * Hokkien: 蟲豸, 昆蟲
 * Mandarin:, ,
 * Wu: 昆蟲
 * Chukchi: кээрэчьын
 * Crimean Tatar: böcek, aşer
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:, kerfdier
 * Esperanto: insekto
 * Estonian:
 * Faroese: skordýr
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * Georgian:
 * German:, ,
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: ἔντομον
 * Haitian Creole: ensèk
 * Hawaiian: mea kolo
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi:, ,
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Ido:
 * Indonesian:
 * Ingrian: sikiäin
 * Interlingua: insecto
 * Irish: feithid
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Javanese: angga-angga,
 * Kannada:
 * Kashmiri: کیٛۆم
 * Kazakh: жәндік, бунақдене, құрт-құмырсқа, шыбын-шіркей
 * Khmer:
 * Korean:
 * Kurdish:
 * Northern Kurdish:
 * Kyrgyz: чымын-чиркей, курт-кумурска
 * Lao:
 * Latgalian: kustūneits
 * Latin: īnsectum
 * Latvian: kukainis, insekts
 * Lithuanian: vabzdys
 * Macedonian: инсект
 * Malagasy:
 * Malay:
 * Malayalam: ,
 * Maltese: insett
 * Manx: beisteig
 * Maori: pēpeke, mū, haukituri
 * Marathi: किडा
 * Mi'kmaq: jujij, juji'ji'j
 * Mon: ထၟ
 * Mongolian:
 * Cyrillic:, шавьж хорхой,
 * Nahuatl: yolkatsin
 * Nanai: колан
 * Navajo: chʼosh bijáád hastání, chʼosh
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Nynorsk: insekt
 * Occitan:
 * Odia:
 * Ottoman Turkish: بوجك, حشره
 * Pashto: ,
 * Pawnee: pahuks, piiruus
 * Persian:
 * Polish:, ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:, ,
 * Sanskrit:
 * Sardinian: babboi, cerpiu
 * Campidanese: babballotti
 * Logudorese: babbautzu
 * Scottish Gaelic: meanbh-fhrìde, frìde, biastag
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: ѝнсект, бу̏ба, ку́кац
 * Roman:, ,
 * Seychellois Creole: bebet
 * Sicilian: ,
 * Slovak:
 * Slovene:, insekt
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:
 * Sylheti: ꠙꠥꠇ
 * Tagalog:
 * Tajik:
 * Tamil:
 * Tarifit: abeɛɛuš
 * Tatar:
 * Telugu: ,
 * Thai:
 * Tibetan: འབུ་སྲིན, འབུ
 * Tigrinya: ሓሽራ
 * Tongan: ʻinisēkite
 * Turkish: ,
 * Turkmen:
 * Ukrainian:, кома́шка
 * Urdu: کِیڑا, حَشَرَہ
 * Uyghur: ھاشارەت
 * Uzbek:
 * Veps: gaved
 * Vietnamese:, (昆蟲)
 * Volapük:
 * Welsh:, ,
 * West Frisian:
 * White Hmong: kab
 * Wolof: gunóor
 * Yámana: wankara
 * Yiddish: אינסעקט
 * Yoruba: kòkòrò
 * Zazaki: heserat, xezende


 * Bashkir: бөжәк
 * Czech:
 * Finnish: ,
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: ἔντομον
 * Japanese:
 * Korean:
 * Latvian: kukainis
 * Malayalam: ,
 * Mi'kmaq: jujij, juji'ji'j
 * Nanai: колан
 * Ottoman Turkish: بوجك, حشره
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Russian: ,
 * Scottish Gaelic: meanbh-fhrìde, frìde, biastag
 * Spanish:
 * Turkish:
 * Welsh:


 * Breton:
 * Bulgarian:
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * Interlingua: insecto
 * Korean: 버러지,
 * Macedonian: гнида
 * Malayalam:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian: ,
 * Russian:, ,
 * Ukrainian: хроба́к

Etymology
Originally having a wider meaning (sense 2), as in Aristotle. From, from. The Latin is a calque of, from.

Noun

 * , arthropod of the class.
 * 1)   any small arthropod or invertebrate that somewhat resembles an insect
 * 1)   any small arthropod or invertebrate that somewhat resembles an insect