vappo

Latin

Etymology

Maybe from a Proto-Indo-European root meaning to flutter and related to Ancient Greek ἠπίολος (ēpíolos, “moth”) and German wabern (“to flicker”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈu̯ap.poː/, [ˈu̯äpːoː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈvap.po/, [ˈväpːo]

Noun

vappō m (genitive vappōnis); third declension

1. a moth, butterfly

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	vappō	vappōnēs
Genitive	vappōnis	vappōnum
Dative	vappōnī	vappōnibus
Accusative	vappōnem	vappōnēs
Ablative	vappōne	vappōnibus
Vocative	vappō	vappōnēs

Related terms

• blatta

References

• “vappo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press