Etymology

blattoid

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Today it means: Any member of the Blattoidea superfamily of cockroaches and termites. Full definition →

translingual Blattoidea ← Latin blatta
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The story

  1. Latin · derived fromblatta“photophobic bug”
  2. translingual · borrowed fromBlattoidea
  3. English todayblattoid

Borrowed from translingual Blattoidea, from the type genus of Blatta, from Latin blatta (“photophobic bug”). Further etymology unclear.

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