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单词 moth
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moth

English

a moth (1)

Etymology 1

From Middle English moth, moththe, motthe, moght, mohþe, mouȝte, from Old English moþþe, mohþe, mohþa (“moth”), from Proto-West Germanic *moþþō, *mottō, from Proto-Germanic *muþþô, *muttô (“moth, worm”), from Proto-Indo-European *mutn-, *mut- (“worm”). Cognate with West Frisian mot (“moth”), Dutch mot (“moth”), German Low German Motte, Mott (“moth”), German Motte (“moth”), Swedish mott (“moth”).

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /mɒθ/
  • Audio (UK)(file)
  • (General American) enPR: môth, IPA(key): /mɔθ/
  • (cot–caught merger, Canada) IPA(key): /mɑθ/, enPR: mŏth
  • Audio (US)(file)
  • Rhymes: -ɒθ, -ɔːθ

Noun

moth (plural moths)

  1. A usually nocturnal insect of the order Lepidoptera, distinguished from butterflies by feather-like antennae.
    • 2013 May-June, William E. Conner, “An Acoustic Arms Race”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 3, page 206-7:
      Earless ghost swift moths become “invisible” to echolocating bats by forming mating clusters close (less than half a meter) above vegetation and effectively blending into the clutter of echoes that the bat receives from the leaves and stems around them.
  2. (figurative) Anything that gradually and silently eats, consumes, or wastes any other thing.
Hypernyms
  • lep
Derived terms
Terms derived from moth
  • acorn moth (Blastobasis glandulella and Cydia splendana)
  • ailanthus moth (Hyalophora cecropia)
  • almond moth (Cadra cautella)
  • almond tree leaf skeletoniser moth, almond tree leaf skeletonizer moth (Aglaope infausta)
  • American chestnut moth (Ectoedemia castaneae)
  • angoumois moth (Sitotroga cerealella)
  • antler moth (Charaeas graminis)
  • apple moth*
  • arctic woolly bear moth (Gynaephora groenlandica)
  • Atlas moth (Attacus atlas)
  • autumnal moth (Epirrita autumnata)
  • bag moth
  • bagworm moth (Psychidae)
  • bee moth*
  • bell moth (Tortricidae, Archips rosaceana)
  • black moth*
  • black-arched moth
  • bogong moth (Agrotis infusa)
  • book moth
  • brimstone moth (Opisthograptis luteolata)
  • brown-tailed moth, brown-tail moth, browntail moth (Euproctis chrysorrhoea)
  • buck moth (Hemileuca maia)
  • bud moth (Spilonota ocellana)
  • buff-tip moth (Phalera bucephala)
  • buffalo moth (Anthrenus, Attagenus)
  • bumblebee moth
  • burdock seedhead moth (Metzneria lappella)
  • burnet companion moth (Euclidia glyphica)
  • burnet moth (Zygaenidae)
  • cabbage moth (Plutella xylostella)
  • cacao moth (Ephestia elutella)
  • carpet moth (Tinea pellionella)
  • case moth (Coleophoridae)
  • cecropia moth (Hyalophora cecropia)
  • chocolate moth (Cadra cautella)
  • cinnabar moth (Tyria jacobaeae)
  • clearwing moth (Sesiidae spp. and Hemaris spp.)
  • clothes moth (Tineidae)
  • clothing moth*
  • codlin moth, codling moth (Cydia pomonella)
  • comet moth (Argema mittrei)
  • concealer moth (Oecophoridae)
  • corn moth (Tinea granella)
  • corn borer moth (Pyrausta nubilalis)
  • cotton leafworm moth (Alabama argillacea)
  • cotton moth (Alabama argillacea)
  • cup moth (Limacodidae)
  • currant moth (Eupithecia assimilata, Abraxas grossulariata)
  • currant-shoot moth (Incurvaria capitella)
  • cutworm moth*
  • cynthia moth (Samia cynthia)
  • dagger moth (Acronicta} spp.)
  • dart moth
  • day-moth
  • death's head moth (Acherontia spp.)
  • diamond-back moth, diamondback moth (Plutella xylostella)
  • dot moth (Melanchra persicariae)
  • emperor moth (Saturniinae)
  • ermine moth (Yponomeutidae)
  • flour moth*
  • geometer moth (Geometridae)
  • ghost moth (Hepialus humuli, Hepialidae)
  • goat moth
  • gooseberry-moth
  • grass moth
  • giant leopard moth
  • gipsy moth, gypsy moth (Lymantria dispar)
  • hag moth (Phobetron pithecium)
  • hawk moth*, hawk-moth, hawkmoth
  • honeycomb moth (Galleria mellonella)
  • hummingbird moth (Hemaris thysbe)
  • imperial moth
  • Indian meal moth
  • io moth
  • kitten moth
  • lackey moth
  • lappet moth
  • leaf roller moth
  • leek moth
  • leopard moth
  • lobster moth
  • luna moth
  • magpie moth*
  • many-plumed moth
  • meal moth
  • Mediterranean flour moth
  • miller moth*
  • mint moth
  • moth ball, moth-ball, mothball
  • moth blight (Aleurodes or Aleurodidae spp.)
  • moth borer
  • moth-eaten
  • mothed
  • mothen
  • mother
  • Mother Shipton moth
  • moth flower
  • moth fly (Psychodidae)
  • moth freckle
  • moth-fretted
  • moth-fretten
  • moth gnat (Psychodidae)
  • moth hawk (Caprimulgidae)
  • moth hunter (Caprimulgidae)
  • mothless
  • moth-like, mothlike
  • moth midge (Psychodidae)
  • moth miller
  • moth mullein (Verbascum blattaria)
  • moth orchid (Phalaenopsis spp.)
  • moth patch
  • moth plant (Phalaenopsis spp.)
  • moth-proof, mothproof
  • moth sphinx (Castniidae)
  • moth spot
  • moth-time
  • mothweed
  • moth wing
  • mothwort
  • mothy
  • mouse moth
  • night moth
  • November moth (Epirrita dilutata)
  • nun moth
  • ochre-winged hag moth (Lithacodes fasciola)
  • oriental leafworm moth
  • owlet moth (Noctuidae)
  • owl moth*
  • pale November moth
  • Pandora sphinx moth
  • pasture day moth (Apina callisto)
  • pear leaf blister moth
  • peppered moth
  • plume moth
  • polyphemus moth (Antheraea polyphemus)
  • processionary moth
  • pug-moth
  • puss moth
  • rabbit moth
  • satin moth
  • shipton moth
  • short-cloaked moth
  • silkmoth*
  • silkworm moth
  • skiff moth (Prolimacodes badia)
  • slug moth (Limacodidae)
  • snout moth
  • southern flannel moth
  • sphinx moth
  • summer fruit tortrix moth
  • swallow-tailed moth
  • swift moth
  • tapestry moth (Tinea pellionella)
  • tiger moth (Arctiidae)
  • tobacco moth (Ephestia elutella)
  • turnip moth
  • tussock moth (Lymantriinae)
  • unicorn moth (Schizura unicornis)
  • veneer moth
  • vine moth, vine-moth
  • wax moth*
  • webmoth*
  • wheat moth
  • winter moth
  • witch moth (Thermesiini)
  • yellow-shouldered slug moth
  • Y moth (Autographa gamma)
  • yucca moth (Tegeticula yuccasella)

*Entries with derived terms containing moth

Translations

Verb

moth (third-person singular simple present moths, present participle mothing, simple past and past participle mothed)

  1. (intransitive) To hunt for moths.

See also

  • butterfly
  • caterpillar
  • worm

Etymology 2

moth beans

From Hindi मोठ (moṭh); see moth bean.

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /məʊt/
    • Audio (UK)(file)
  • (General American) enPR: mōt, IPA(key): /moʊt/
  • Rhymes: -əʊt
  • Homophones: moat, mote

Noun

moth (countable and uncountable, plural moths)

  1. The plant Vigna aconitifolia, moth bean.
Synonyms
  • (Vigna aconitifolia): Turkish gram, mat bean, matki
Derived terms
  • moth bean
  • moth flour
Translations

References

  • Vigna aconitifolia on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
  • Vigna aconitifolia on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
  • Vigna aconitifolia on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
  • moth at USDA Plants database

Noun

moth (plural moths)

  1. Obsolete form of mote.
    • c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Othello, the Moore of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act I, scene iii]:
      So that, dear lords, if I be left behind, / A moth of peace, and he go to the war, / The rites for which I love him are bereft me, / And I a heavy interim shall support / By his dear absence. Let me go with him.
  2. (dated) A liver spot, especially an irregular or feathery one.
    • 1895, Good Housekeeping, page 196, ISSN: 0731-3462
      To remove moth patches, wash the spots with a solution of common bicarbonate of soda and water several times a day, until the patches are removed, which will usually be in forty-eight hours.
    • 1999, R. L. Gupta, Directory of Diseases & Cures: In Homoeopathy, →ISBN, page 254:
      Craves for sour things, chalks and eggs, fatty people with light brown spots on the face or liver spots, moth patches on forehead and cheek.
    • 2005, J. D. Patil, Textbook of Applied Materia Medica, →ISBN, page 108:
      There are signs of liver affections as weakness, yellow complexion, liver spots, and moth spot like a saddle over the nose.

References

    Anagrams

    • Thom

    Old Irish

    Etymology

    The word also carried the original meaning of "male organ," from Proto-Celtic *muto-, from Proto-Indo-European *mHú-to- (“strong one”), perhaps later "penis," related to Hittite [script needed] (mūwa, “something awe-inspiring”) and Luwian [script needed] (mūwa-, “to overpower”), possibly also Latin muto (“penis”).[1][2]

    Pronunciation

    • IPA(key): /moθ/

    Noun

    moth m

    1. amazement, stupor
      • c. 800–825, Diarmait, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 68b9
        cia beith ar n‑acathar nech inna rétu inducbaidi in betha so, arnach·corathar i mmoth ⁊ machthad dia seirc ⁊ dia n‑accubur
        though it be that someone sees the glorious things of this world, that he may not be put in stupor and admiration by love for them and by desire for them

    Declension

    Masculine o-stem
    SingularDualPlural
    Nominativemoth——
    Vocativemuith——
    AccusativemothN——
    GenitivemuithL——
    DativemothL, muth——
    Initial mutations of a following adjective:
    • H = triggers aspiration
    • L = triggers lenition
    • N = triggers nasalization

    Mutation

    Old Irish mutation
    RadicalLenitionNasalization
    moth
    also mmoth after a proclitic    		moth
    pronounced with /ṽ(ʲ)-/    		unchanged
    Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
    possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

    References

    1. Matasović, Ranko (2009), “muto”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, pages 282
    2. De Vaan, Michiel (2008), “muto”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 398

    Further reading

    • G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “1 moth”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

    Welsh

    Pronunciation

    • IPA(key): /moːθ/

    Noun

    moth

    1. Nasal mutation of both.

    Mutation

    Welsh mutation
    radicalsoftnasalaspirate
    bothfothmothunchanged
    Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.
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