Sunday, March 4, 2012

What is the Latin word for spider?

I keep using on online translator and it says there is no translation, which is total b.s. The Greeks had a word for it, and they predated the Latin language.





Easy ten points!





Help.|||Aranea can also mean spider as well as spider's-web. Therefore, you can use either aranea or araneus to mean spider.|||Araneae would be correct. the word stems from Greek mythology


of the goddess Aranea who was turned into a spider.


this is also the Latin term for spider.


In taxonomy, it refers to an order of arachnida, describing


air-breathing chelicerate arthropods that have eight legs, and chelicerae modified into fangs that inject venom. (true spiders)|||Here is the link on the Imaginum Vocabularium Latinum





http://imaginumvocabulariumlatinum.blogs鈥?/a>





Nice link, with picture, and loads of other things if you are looking for the names of things in Latin. If you are interested in learning latin, you might want to check out this:


http://latinum.mypodcast.com|||The taxonomic order of spiders is called Araneae. I suppose aranea would be the Latin word then.|||Tarantula?

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