blatta

== Italian == === Etymology === From Latin blatta (“cockroach, moth”). === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈblat.ta/ Rhymes: -atta Hyphenation: blàt‧ta === Noun === blatta f (plural blatte) (entomology) cockroach Synonym: scarafaggio m == Latin == === Etymology === No clear etymology. Possibly related to Ancient Greek βλάπτω (bláptō, “to disable, hinder, harm”). === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈbɫat.ta] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈblat.ta] === Noun === blatta f (genitive blattae); first declension any insect that shuns the light, e.g. cockroach, moth a clot of blood ==== Declension ==== First-declension noun. ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Descendants ==== === References === “blatta”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “blatta”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers "blatta", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887) “blatta”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette. “blatta”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers “blatta”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin