Tarentula

See also: tarantula and Tarantula

Translingual

Etymology

A variant of Latin tarantula, taking into account the etymological root of Latin Tarentum (whence Italian Taranto). Thus, Latin Tarentum (“town”) +‎ -ula (diminutive suffix).

Proper noun

Tarentula f

1. (obsolete) A taxonomic genus within the family Lycosidae – a disused grouping of spiders, sometimes a subgenus of Lycosa, now in other genera of Lycosidae.

Hyponyms

• (genus): Tarentula apuliae, Tarentula rubiginosa, Tarentula melanogaster, Tarentula fasciiventris, Tarentula narbonensis - selected species

See also

• Tarantula

References

• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “Tarentula”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
• Tarentula at Index to Organism Names