arachnid

English

Etymology

From international scientific vocabulary, from French arachnide (1809, Lamarck), from New Latin, from Ancient Greek ἀράχνη (arákhnē, “spider”) with the suffix -id. By surface analysis, arachn- +‎ -id.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /əˈɹæknɪd/

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Noun

arachnid (plural arachnids)

1. Any of the eight-legged creatures, including spiders, mites, and scorpions, of the class Arachnida.

Hyponyms

• mite, spider, scorpion; for others, see Thesaurus:arachnid

Derived terms

• arachnerd
• arachnidial, arachnidism

Related terms

• arachnicide, arachnophobia

Translations

eight-legged creature

• Afrikaans: aragnied
• Arabic: حَيَوَان عَنْكَبُوتِيّ m (ḥayawān ʕankabūtiyy)
• Asturian: arácnidu (ast) m
• Catalan: aràcnid m
• Chechen: мангалхьокхург (mangalḥʳoqurg)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 蛛型動物 / 蛛型动物 (zhūxíng dòngwù), 蜘蛛類 / 蜘蛛类 (zh) (zhīzhūlèi)

• Czech: pavoukovec m
• Danish: spindler (da) c
• Dutch: spinachtige (nl) m
• Faroese: spunari m
• Finnish: hämähäkkieläin (fi)
• French: arachnide (fr) m
• Galician: arácnido (gl) m
• Georgian: ობობასნაირი (obobasnairi), არაქნიდი (araknidi)
• German: Spinnentier (de) n; Arachnide (de) f (less common and chiefly only in the plural)
• Hungarian: pókszabású
• Icelandic: áttfætla f
• Irish: araicnid f
• Italian: aracnide (it) m
• Japanese: クモ形類 (kumogatarui)
• Korean: 거미류의 동물 (geomiryuui dongmul)
• Luxembourgish: Spannendéier n
• Malay: araknid
• Manx: arachnaid m
• Maori: pūwere
• Navajo: chʼosh bijáád tseebíhígíí
• Norwegian: edderkoppdyr n
• Persian: تنندگان (fa) (tanandegân)
• Polish: pajęczak (pl) m
• Portuguese: aracnídeo (pt) m
• Romanian: arahnidă (ro) f
• Russian: паукообра́зное (ru) n (paukoobráznoje)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: па̏учина f

  Roman: pȁučina (sh) f

• Spanish: arácnido (es) m
• Swedish: spindeldjur (sv) c
• Tamil: அராக்கினிட் (arākkiṉiṭ)
• Thai: แมง (th) (mɛɛng)

Further reading

• arachnid on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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