thrips

See also: Thrips

English

onion thrips (Thrips tabaci), left, and western flower thrips (Frankliniella occidentalis)

Alternative forms

• thrip (alternative singular form)

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek θρίψ (thríps, “wood-worm”).

Noun

thrips (plural thrips or thripses)

1. Any of the many small insects of the order Thysanoptera, especially those that attack useful plants.
   • 1919, Frank Hurlbut Chittenden, Control of the Onion Thrips, page 9:

     The turnrows and margins of the fields should be cultivated often enough to prevent the growth of weeds, many forms of which harbor the onion thrips.

   • 2002, Thrips, article in International Wildlife Encyclopedia Volume 19, Picture caption, page 2676,

     The thousands of thrips species include among their number the smallest of all winged insects.

   • 2004, Steve H. Dreistadt, Pests of Landscape Trees and Shrubs: An Integrated Pest Management Guide, Picture caption, page 157:

     Bleaching and stippling on viburnum foliage infested with greenhouse thrips. Because this sluggish thrips feeds openly on the underside of leaves, it is controlled by thorough coverage with insecticidal soap or oil.

Derived terms

• antithrips
• cotton seedling thrips
• grain thrips (Thrips cerealium)
• onion thrips (Thrips tabaci)
• pear thrips
• potato thrips
• tobacco thrips
• western flower thrips (Frankliniella occidentalis)

 

Translations

insect of the order Thysanoptera

• Danish: thrips c
• Estonian: ripslane
• Finnish: ripsiäinen (fi)
• French: thrips (fr) m, thrip (fr) m
• German: Fransenflügler m
• Hungarian: tripsz
• Norwegian: trips n
• Polish: wciornastek m, przylżeniec m
• Russian: трипс (ru) m (trips)
• Spanish: tisanóptero m
• Swedish: trips (sv) c
• Turkish: saçakkanat, kirpikkanatlı
• Welsh: thrips m, pryf taranau m

Further reading

• thrips on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• https://web.archive.org/web/20050219030824/http://www.gladescropcare.com/wythp.html

Latin

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek θρῑ́ψ (thrī́ps, “woodworm”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /tʰriːps/, [t̪ʰriːps̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /trips/, [t̪rips]

Noun

thrīps m (genitive thrīpis); third declension

1. A kind of woodworm
2. trifles, worthless things

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	thrīps	thrīpēs
Genitive	thrīpis	thrīpum
Dative	thrīpī	thrīpibus
Accusative	thrīpem	thrīpēs
Ablative	thrīpe	thrīpibus
Vocative	thrīps	thrīpēs

References

• “thrips”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• thrips in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.