noun · 5 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
Received-Pronunciation:/ˈwiːv(ə)l/
General-American:/ˈwiːvɪl/
Australia:Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
rhymes with -iːvəl
CMU ARPABET:W IY1 V AH0 L
Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
1
noun
Meaning 1
Any of many tens of thousands of species of herbivorous beetles, ranging in size from tiny to large, in the superfamily Curculionoidea, the most characteristic species having the head projecting in a distinctive snout with the mouthparts at the tip.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
2
noun
Meaning 2
Any of many tens of thousands of species of herbivorous beetles of various sizes, in the family Curculionidae within the superfamily Curculionoidea.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
3
noun
Meaning 3
Any of many similar, but more distantly related, beetles such as the biscuit weevil (Stegobium paniceum).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
4
noun
Meaning 4
A loathsome person.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: derogatory, figuratively
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
5
noun
Meaning 5
any of several families of mostly small beetles that feed on plants and plant products; especially snout beetles and seed beetles
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
From Middle English wevel, from Old English wifel (“beetle”), from Proto-West Germanic *wibil, from Proto-Germanic *wibilaz, from Proto-Indo-European *webhel-, from *(h1)webh- (“to wave, to weave”), said to be from the woven appearance of a weevil’s larval case, + *-el-, *-l̥- (diminutive or attributive suffix); see also wave and weave. Compare Old Saxon *wivil (“beetle”); Middle Low German wevel; Old High German wibil, wipil (modern German Wiebel (“beetle; chafer”)); Lithuanian vãbalas (“beetle; weevil”); Old Norse vifill, as in tordyfill (“dung beetle, scarab”) (whence Dutch tortwevel; Icelandic tordýfill, Norwegian tordivel, Old English tordwifel, Swedish tordyvel); dialectal Russian ве́блица (véblica, “intestinal worm”).
Across languages
Translations
81 source translations are retained for this English entry.
Asturian:
gorgoyu
— beetle in the superfamily Curculionoidea
Belarusian:
даўгано́сік
(dawhanósik)
— beetle in the superfamily Curculionoidea
Belarusian:
сло́нік
(slónik)
— beetle in the superfamily Curculionoidea
Belarusian:
шашо́лка
(šašólka)
— beetle in the superfamily Curculionoidea
Burmese:
ဆင်ပိုး
(hcangpui:)
— beetle in the superfamily Curculionoidea
Catalan:
corc
— beetle in the superfamily Curculionoidea
Catalan:
fraró
— beetle in the superfamily Curculionoidea
Catalan:
morrut
— beetle in the superfamily Curculionoidea
Chinese Mandarin:
象鼻蟲 /象鼻虫
(xiàngbíchóng)
— beetle in the superfamily Curculionoidea
Czech:
nosatec
— beetle in the superfamily Curculionoidea
Czech:
pilous
— beetle in the superfamily Curculionoidea
Dutch:
snuitkever
— beetle in the superfamily Curculionoidea
Esperanto:
kalandro
— beetle in the superfamily Curculionoidea
Esperanto:
grenskarabo
— beetle in the superfamily Curculionoidea
Finnish:
kärsäkäsmäinen
— beetle in the superfamily Curculionoidea
French:
charançon
— beetle in the superfamily Curculionoidea
French:
balanin
— beetle in the superfamily Curculionoidea
French:
cosson
— beetle in the superfamily Curculionoidea
Galician:
gurgullo
— beetle in the superfamily Curculionoidea
Galician:
congorxo
— beetle in the superfamily Curculionoidea
German:
Rüsselkäfer
— beetle in the superfamily Curculionoidea
Greek:
βρούχος
(vroúchos)
— beetle in the superfamily Curculionoidea
Ancient Greek:
κίς
(kís)
— beetle in the superfamily Curculionoidea
Hungarian:
ormányosbogár
— beetle in the superfamily Curculionoidea
Hungarian:
zsizsik
— beetle in the superfamily Curculionoidea
Icelandic:
væfla
— beetle in the superfamily Curculionoidea
Icelandic:
ranabjalla
— beetle in the superfamily Curculionoidea
Italian:
curculione
— beetle in the superfamily Curculionoidea
Italian:
calandra
— beetle in the superfamily Curculionoidea
Italian:
balanino
— beetle in the superfamily Curculionoidea
Japanese:
象虫
(zōmushi)
— beetle in the superfamily Curculionoidea
Japanese:
ゾウムシ
(zōmushi)
— beetle in the superfamily Curculionoidea
Old Javanese:
bubuk
— beetle in the superfamily Curculionoidea
Kabuverdianu:
gurgudju
— beetle in the superfamily Curculionoidea
Korean:
바구미
(bagumi)
— beetle in the superfamily Curculionoidea
Latin:
curculiō
— beetle in the superfamily Curculionoidea
Malay:
bubuk
— beetle in the superfamily Curculionoidea
Māori:
pepeke nguturoa
— beetle in the superfamily Curculionoidea
Navajo:
tsé neiʼáhí
— beetle in the superfamily Curculionoidea
Plautdietsch:
Kornworm
— beetle in the superfamily Curculionoidea
Polish:
ryjkowiec
— beetle in the superfamily Curculionoidea
Portuguese:
gorgulho
— beetle in the superfamily Curculionoidea
Russian:
долгоно́сик
(dolgonósik)
— beetle in the superfamily Curculionoidea
Serbo-Croatian:
žižak
— beetle in the superfamily Curculionoidea
Spanish:
gorgojo
— beetle in the superfamily Curculionoidea
Swedish:
vivel
— beetle in the superfamily Curculionoidea
Ottoman Turkish:
سوس
(sus)
— beetle in the superfamily Curculionoidea
Ukrainian:
довгоно́сик
(dovhonósyk)
— beetle in the superfamily Curculionoidea
Ukrainian:
сло́ник
(slónyk)
— beetle in the superfamily Curculionoidea
Welsh:
gwiddonyn
— beetle in the superfamily Curculionoidea
Asturian:
gorgoyu
— beetle in the family Curculionidae
Belarusian:
даўгано́сік
(dawhanósik)
— beetle in the family Curculionidae
Belarusian:
сло́нік
(slónik)
— beetle in the family Curculionidae
Belarusian:
шашо́лка
(šašólka)
— beetle in the family Curculionidae
Bulgarian:
гъгрица
(gǎgrica)
— beetle in the family Curculionidae
Bulgarian:
хоботник
(hobotnik)
— beetle in the family Curculionidae
Catalan:
morrut
— beetle in the family Curculionidae
Dutch:
snuitkever
— beetle in the family Curculionidae
Estonian:
kärsakas
— beetle in the family Curculionidae
Faroese:
trantklukka
— beetle in the family Curculionidae
Finnish:
kärsäkäs
— beetle in the family Curculionidae
Galician:
gurgullo
— beetle in the family Curculionidae
German:
Rüsselkäfer
— beetle in the family Curculionidae
Ancient Greek:
κίς
(kís)
— beetle in the family Curculionidae
Kabuverdianu:
gurgudju
— beetle in the family Curculionidae
Kapampangan:
bukbuk
— beetle in the family Curculionidae
Navajo:
tsé neiʼáhí
— beetle in the family Curculionidae
Polish:
ryjkowiec
— beetle in the family Curculionidae
Polish:
słonik
— beetle in the family Curculionidae
Portuguese:
gorgulho
— beetle in the family Curculionidae
Spanish:
gorgojo
— beetle in the family Curculionidae
Spanish:
picudo
— beetle in the family Curculionidae
Swedish:
vivel
— beetle in the family Curculionidae
Ottoman Turkish:
سوس
(sus)
— beetle in the family Curculionidae
Ukrainian:
довгоно́сик
(dovhonósyk)
— beetle in the family Curculionidae
Ukrainian:
сло́ник
(slónyk)
— beetle in the family Curculionidae
Welsh:
gwiddonyn
— beetle in the family Curculionidae
