tippula

== Latin == === Etymology === Diminutive of a borrowing from Ancient Greek τίφη (típhē, “water spider, type of beetle”), a word of non-Indo-European (likely Pre-Greek substrate) origin. This word is also glossed as "einkorn wheat" but that sense is likely separate. === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈtɪp.pʊ.ɫa] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈtip.pu.la] === Noun === tippula f (genitive tippulae); first declension an insect running across the surface of the water, a pond-skater; a water spider ==== Declension ==== First-declension noun. ==== Descendants ==== === References === “tippula”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press