centipede

See also: centípede and centipède

English

A centipede.

Wikispecies

Etymology

From French centipède, from Latin centi- (“hundred”) + pes (“foot”).

Pronunciation

(UK) IPA^(key): /ˈsɛn.tɪ.pid/
Audio (RP) (file)

Noun

centipede (plural centipedes)

Any arthropod of class Chilopoda, which have a segmented body with one pair of legs per segment and from about 20 to 300 legs in total.
- 1993, Gordon M. Nishida, JoAnn M. Tenorio, What Bit Me?: Identifying Hawai'i's Stinging and Biting Insects and Their Kin, page 29,
  Centipedes differ from millipedes by having a single pair of legs on each body segment.
- 2008, Thom Holmes, March Onto Land: The Silurian Period to the Middle Triassic Epoch‎, page 58:
  The existence of millipedes, centipedes, insects, and spiders along-side the first tetrapods sustained a robust ecosystem in which most animals were predators or scavengers.
- 2011, Alan Gunn, Essential Forensic Biology, 2nd Edition, unnumbered page,
  All centipedes (Chilopoda) and spiders (Aranea) are predatory and although they are often found on corpses their impact on the other fauna is not known.

Usage notes

The spelling "centiped" was formerly considered the only correct form by prescriptivists and is still preferred by many scientists who work with myriapods, but this spelling is by far the most common in actual use.

Synonyms

(any species of class Chilopoda): chilopod

Derived terms

centipede grass
garden centipede
house centipede
sea centipede
soil centipede
stone centipede

Translations

a segmented arthropod of class Chilopoda

Albanian: njëqindkëmbëshi
Arabic: أُمّ أَرْبَع وَأَرْبَعِين‎ (ʾumm ʾarbaʿ waʾarbaʿīn), ^{(please verify)} حَرِيش‎ m (ḥarīš)
Assamese: চেলা (sela)
Azerbaijani: qırxayaq (az)
Bahnar: kơep
Bau Bidayuh: ripapien
Belarusian: саракано́жка f (sarakanóžka)
Bengali: কেন্নো (kenno)
Bulgarian: стоно́жка f (stonóžka)
Burmese: ကင်းခြေများ (my) (kang:hkre-mya:)
Catalan: centpeus
Central Melanau: belipan
Chepang: साव्‌
Chinese:
Cantonese: 百足 (yue) (baak³ zuk¹) (colloquial,more common), 蜈蚣 (ng⁴ gung¹) (literary, formal)
Mandarin: 蜈蚣 (zh) (wúgōng)
Czech: stonožka (cs) f
Danish: skolopender
Darkinjung: búrranburran
Dutch: duizendpoot (nl) m
Egyptian:

(zpꜣ)
Esperanto: centpiedulo
Estonian: sadajalgne
Finnish: juoksujalkainen (fi)
French: scolopendre (fr) m
Galician: cempés (gl), escoupoleión m, rapacodelas m, cerradela f
Georgian: ცხრაფეხა (cxrapexa)
German: Tausendfüßler (de) m, Tausendfüßer (de) m (rare, dated, or regional) Hundertfüßler m, Hundertfüßer m
Greek: σαρανταποδαρούσα (el) f (sarantapodaroúsa)
Ancient: ἴουλος m (íoulos)
Guaraní: japeusa, ambu'a
Haitian Creole: miryapod, annipye
Hawaiian: kanapī
Hebrew: נָדָל‎ (he) m (nadal)
Hindi: कनखजूरा m (kanakhjūrā), खजूरा (hi) m (khajūrā), कनसलाई (hi) f (kanaslāī), शतपाद (hi) m (śatpād), शतपद (hi) m (śatpad), शतपदी (hi) f (śatapdī), गोजर (hi) m (gojar), गिजाई (hi) f (gijāī), गिंजाई (hi) f (giñjāī), चालीसपद m (cālīspad)
Hungarian: százlábú (hu)
Icelandic: margfætla f
Indonesian: kelabang (id), lipan (id)
Banjarese: halilipan (bjn)
Minangkabau: sipasan (min)
Sundanese: babakaur
Irish: céadchosach
Italian: centopiedi (it) m
Jamaican Creole: forty leg
Japanese: 百足 (ja) (むかで, mukade)
Kazakh: қырықаяқ (qyryqaäq)
Khasi: ktiar
Khmer: ក្អែប (km) (kʼaep)
Korean: 지네 (ko) (jine)
Kyrgyz: кырк аяк (kırk ayak), миң аяк (miŋ ayak)
Lao: ເຂັບ (khep), ຈະເຂັບ (cha khep), ຈີ່ເຂັບ (chī khep), ສະຕະບາດ (sa ta bāt)
Latin: scolopendra f
Latvian: simtkāji
Lithuanian: lūpakojai
Macedonian: стоногалка f (stonogalka)
Maguindanao: layupan
Malay: lipan, sepesan, kelabang
Malayalam: പഴുതാര (ml) (paḻutāra)
Maltese: ċentupied m
Maori: weri, wakapihau
Maranao: ginigid
Minangkabau: lipan
Mongolian: жаран хөлт (žaran xölt), зуун хөлт (zuun xölt)
Nahuatl: petlazolcoatl
Nandi: kimorin
Navajo: jááłánii, jáád łánii
Nepali: खजुरो (ne) (khajuro)
Norman: bête à chent pids f
Norwegian: skolopender m
Persian: صدپا‎ (fa) (sad-pâ), پرپا‎ (fa)
Polish: stonoga (pl) f, parecznik m
Portuguese: centípede m, centopeia (pt) f, quilópode
Quechua: pachakchaki
Romanian: centiped
Russian: сороконо́жка (ru) f (sorokonóžka)
Sanskrit: वृश्चिक (sa) m (vṛścika)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: стонога f
Roman: stonoga (sh) f
Slovak: stonožka f
Slovene: stonoga (sl)
Spanish: ciempiés (es) m, escolopendra f
Swahili: tandu (sw)
Swedish: enkelfoting (sv) c
Tagal Murut: nipal, ripal
Tagalog: alupihan (tl)
Tajik: чилпо (čilpo), ҳазорпо (hazorpo)
Thai: ตะขาบ (th) (dtà-kàap)
Tibetan: རྟ་བླ། (rta bla)
Turkish: çıyan (tr)
Turkmen: köpaýak
Ukrainian: сороконі́жка f (sorokonížka)
Uyghur: سەكسەنپۇت‎ (seksenput), كىركەك قۇرۇت‎ (kirkek qurut)
Urdu: کَنْکَھجُورا‎ m (kankhajūrā)
Uzbek: qirqoyoq (uz), mingoyoq (uz)
Vietnamese: rết (vi), rít (vi)
Waray-Waray: ulalahipan
Welsh: neidr gantroed
West Coast Bajau: melipan
Yiddish: סענטיפּעדע‎ (sentipede)
Zazaki: şaney ceniya
Zhuang: sipndangj

Latin

Noun

centipede

ablative singular of centipēs