The story
- Latin · borrowed fromSphēgēs
- Ancient Greek · derived fromσφήξ“wasp”
- translingual · borrowed fromSphex
- English todaysphex
Borrowed from translingual Sphex, from the Ancient Greek σφήξ (sphḗx, “wasp”), plural σφῆκες (sphêkes). The plural spheges is likely a borrowing from Latin Sphēgēs.
Words from the same roots
Ancient Greekσφήξ all →
sphecoidspheksophobiasphexish
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.