viespe

Romanian

viespe

Alternative forms

• veaspă, jeaspă — regional, Moldavia

Etymology

Inherited from Latin vespa, either through a Vulgar Latin intermediate form *vespis, or more likely remade from the plural of the original singular Romanian form, viaspă, veaspă, now rare, archaic, or regional, e.g. in Moldavia. Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *wobʰseh₂ (“wasp”), from *webʰ- (“weave”).

Noun

viespe f (plural viespi)

1. wasp (insect)

Declension

Declension of viespe

	singular			plural
	indefinite	definite		indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	viespe	viespea		viespi	viespile
genitive-dative	viespi	viespii		viespi	viespilor
vocative	viespe, viespeo			viespilor

Related terms

• viespar