aphid

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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˈeɪ.fɪd/
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• General-American: /ˈeɪ.fɪd/
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• CMU ARPABET: AE1 F AH0 D Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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• CMU ARPABET 2: EY1 F AH0 D Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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From New Latin aphis (plural aphides), coined by Swedish botanist Carolus Linnaeus in 1758. His inspiration for the name remains unclear; OED suggests it might stem from a misreading of Ancient Greek κορις (koris, “bug”) (see diagram), in which case the nominative -ις (-is) suffix was reanalyzed as -ις, -ιδος (-is, -idos); while AHD suggests a connection to Ancient Greek ἀφειδής (apheidḗs, “unsparing, lavishly borrowed”) in reference to the insects' voracity or rapid rate of production, from ἀ- (a-, “not”) + φείδομαι (pheídomai, “to spare, be thrifty, be merciful”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bheyd- (“to split”). Doublet of aphis.

74 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Albanian: mushicë — insect
• Arabic: مَنّ (mann) — insect
• Arabic: مَنَّة (manna) — insect
• Armenian: լվիճ (lvič) — insect
• Asturian: pulgón — insect
• Basque: landare-zorri — insect
• Belarusian: тля (tlja) — insect
• Bulgarian: листна въшка (listna vǎška) — insect
• Catalan: afídid — insect
• Catalan: pugó — insect
• Chinese Mandarin: 蚜 (yá) — insect
• Chinese Mandarin: 蚜蟲 /蚜虫 (yáchóng) — insect
• Czech: mšice — insect
• Danish: bladlus — insect
• Dutch: bladluis — insect
• Esperanto: afido — insect
• Estonian: lehetäi — insect
• Finnish: kirva — insect
• French: puceron — insect
• Georgian: ბუგრი (bugri) — insect
• German: Blattlaus — insect
• Greek: αφίδα (afída) — insect
• Greek: μελίγκρα (melígkra) — insect
• Hebrew: כנימה (knimá) — insect
• Hindi: द्रुमयूका (drumyūkā) — insect
• Hungarian: levéltetű — insect
• Icelandic: blaðlús — insect
• Ido: afidio — insect
• Irish: aifid — insect
• Italian: afide — insect
• Japanese: 油虫 (aburamushi) — insect
• Kazakh: біте (bıte) — insect
• Khmer: ចៃ (cay) — insect
• Korean: 진딧물 (jindinmul) — insect
• Kumyk: сияла (siyala) — insect
• Northern Kurdish: sipiya riwekan — insect
• Latin: lens olerum — insect
• Latin: aphis — insect
• Latvian: laputs — insect
• Lithuanian: ãmaras (3b) — insect
• Macedonian: ли́сна во́шка (lísna vóška) — insect
• Malay: afid — insect
• Malay: kutu daun — insect
• Māori: kuturiki — insect
• Māori: ngō — insect
• Māori: weo — insect
• Navajo: nahachagii biyázhí — insect
• Norwegian Bokmål: bladlus — insect
• Persian: شته (šate) — insect
• Polish: mszyca — insect
• Portuguese: pulgão — insect
• Portuguese: afídeo — insect
• Romanian: afidă — insect
• Romanian: afide — insect
• Russian: тля (tlja) — insect
• Serbo-Croatian: lisna uš — insect
• Serbo-Croatian: лисна ваш — insect
• Serbo-Croatian: lisna vaš — insect
• Slovak: mšica — insect
• Slovene: listna uš — insect
• Spanish: áfido — insect
• Spanish: pulgón — insect
• Swedish: bladlus — insect
• Tagalog: dapulak — insect
• Tamil: செடிப்பேன் (ceṭippēṉ) — insect
• Tamil: அசுவினி (acuviṉi) — insect
• Thai: เพลี้ย (plíia) — insect
• Turkish: yaprak biti — insect
• Ottoman Turkish: پیره (pire) — insect
• Ukrainian: тля (tlja) — insect
• Ukrainian: попели́ця (popelýcja) — insect
• Vietnamese: rệp vừng — insect
• Volapük: faid — insect
• Welsh: llyslau — insect