guêpe

Inherited from Middle French guespe, from Old French guespe, wespe, wapce (“hornet, wasp”), from a conflation of Latin vespa (“wasp”), and Old Frankish *wespa, *wapsa (“wasp”), from Proto-Germanic *wapsō (“wasp”); both from Proto-Indo-European *wops-éh₂, from *wóps (“wasp”).

Cognate with Spanish avispa (“wasp”), Portuguese vespa (“wasp”), Italian vespa (“wasp”), Old High German wefsa (“wasp”), Old Saxon waspa, wespia (“wasp”), Old English wæsp, wæps (“wasp”), (whence English wasp). More at wasp.

• IPA^(key): /ɡɛp/

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• IPA^(key): /ɡɛːp/ (older, now chiefly Belgium, Canada)
  • (Quebec) IPA^(key): [ɡaɛ̯p]

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• (Louisiana) IPA^(key): /d͡ʒɛp/

guêpe f (plural guêpes)

1. wasp

• abeille f
• frelon m

• “guêpe”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.