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 articulation	definite articulation	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(o) viespe	viespea	(niște) viespi	viespile
genitive/dative	(unei) viespi	viespii	(unor) viespi	viespilor
vocative	viespe, viespeo		viespilor

Related terms

• viespar