larva的词源

英文词源

larva (n.)

1650s, "a ghost, specter," from Latin larva (plural larvae), earlier larua "ghost," also "mask;" applied in biological sense 1768 by Linnaeus because immature forms of insects "mask" the adult forms. On the double sense of the Latin word, Carlo Ginzburg, among other students of mythology and folklore, has commented on "the well-nigh universal association between masks and the spirits of the dead."

中文词源

larva：幼虫

来自拉丁语larva,鬼魂，面具，词源同lares,家神。来自瑞典植物学家林奈的命名，因幼虫如成虫的面具而得名。

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