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falena.

moth

6 characters3 syllables approx.Português language

Meaning & usage

noun/faˈlẽ.nɐ/Brazil/fɐˈle.nɐ/Portugal
  1. moth

    feminine
Where this word comes from

From Latin phalaena, from Ancient Greek φάλαινα (phálaina, “moth; whale”). The semantic shift from "whale" to "moth" occurred in Hellenistic Greek, likely due to an analogy between the fluttering movement of a moth's wings and the fins or spout of a whale.

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