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5-letter words (4 found)

ALVAR,ARVAL,LARVA,LAVRA,

4-letter words (4 found)

ALAR,AVAL,LAVA,VARA,

3-letter words (7 found)

AAL,ALA,AVA,LAR,LAV,RAV,VAR,

2-letter words (4 found)

AA,AL,AR,LA,

You can make 19 words from larva according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 5 letters words made out of larva

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Definitions and meaning of larva

larva

Etymology

From Latin larva (“ghost-like, masked”).

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈlɑː.və/
  • (General American) IPA(key): /ˈlɑɹ.və/
  • Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)və
  • Homophone: lava (in non-rhotic accents)

Noun

larva (plural larvas or larvae or larvæ)

  1. An early stage of growth for some insects and amphibians, in which after hatching from their egg, insects are wingless and resemble a caterpillar or grub, and amphibians lack limbs and resemble fish.
  2. An animal in the aforementioned stage.
  3. A form of a recently born or hatched animal that is quite different from its adult stage.
  4. (figurative) A preliminary stage of someone or something, before it has fully matured, especially a time of growth rather than one of performance.

Usage notes

Although the plural larvas is somewhat common, it is regarded by some as incorrect.

Derived terms

Translations

Anagrams

  • Raval, alvar, arval, lavra

Albanian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈlaɹ.va/

Noun

larva

  1. plural of larvë

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin larva (“ghost-like, masked”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): (Central) [ˈlar.bə]
  • IPA(key): (Balearic) [ˈlar.və]
  • IPA(key): (Valencian) [ˈlaɾ.va]

Noun

larva f (plural larves)

  1. larva

Related terms

  • larval
  • larvari

Further reading

  • “larva” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
  • “larva”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
  • “larva” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
  • “larva” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Czech

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈlarva]
  • Rhymes: -arva
  • Hyphenation: lar‧va

Noun

larva f

  1. larva (animal in the larval stage of growth)
  2. domino mask
    Synonym: škraboška

Declension

Further reading

  • larva in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
  • larva in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989
  • larva in Internetová jazyková příručka

Galician

Etymology

From Latin larva (“ghost-like, masked”).

Noun

larva f (plural larvas)

  1. larva

Related terms

  • larval

Further reading

  • “larva” in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega, Royal Galician Academy.

Italian

Etymology

From Latin larva (“ghost-like, masked”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈlar.va/
  • Rhymes: -arva
  • Hyphenation: làr‧va

Noun

larva f (plural larve)

  1. larva, grub
    Synonym: bruco
  2. (figurative) shadow, skeleton

Derived terms

  • larvale
  • larvato
  • larvicida

Further reading

  • larva in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Latin

Etymology

Possibly from Lār (“Etruscan praenomen; titulary god”), usu. as Lares (“guardian deities”), but vowel length gradation unexplained.

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈlaːr.u̯a/, [ˈɫ̪äːru̯ä]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈlar.va/, [ˈlärvä]
  • (Plautine) IPA(key): /ˈlaː.ru.a/, [ˈɫ̪äːruä]
  • (Plautine) IPA(key): /ˈla.ru.a/, [ˈläːruä]

Noun

lārva f (genitive lārvae); first declension

  1. ghost, haunt, evil spirit, demon, devil
  2. hobgoblin, goblin
  3. (figuratively) horrific mask
  4. (figuratively) skeleton

Declension

First-declension noun.

Quotations

  • circa 200 B.C., Plautus, Captivi, Act 3, Scene 4, line 66:

Derived terms

  • lārvālis
  • lārvāns
  • lārvō

Descendants

Verb

larvā

  1. second-person singular present active imperative of larvō (enchant)

References

  • “larva”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “larva”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • larva in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “lārua”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 328

Norwegian Bokmål

Alternative forms

  • larven

Noun

larva m or f

  1. definite feminine singular of larve

Norwegian Nynorsk

Alternative forms

  • larven

Noun

larva m or f

  1. definite feminine singular of larve

Portuguese

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin larva (“ghost-like, masked”).

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: -aɾvɐ
  • Hyphenation: lar‧va

Noun

larva f (plural larvas)

  1. larva (early growth stage of some insects and amphibians)

Related terms

Further reading

  • “larva” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.

Anagrams

  • alvar, lavar, lavra, Raval, valar, varal

Romanian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈlarva]

Noun

larva f

  1. definite nominative/accusative singular of larvă

Spanish

Etymology

From Latin larva (“ghost-like, masked”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈlaɾba/ [ˈlaɾ.β̞a]
  • Rhymes: -aɾba
  • Syllabification: lar‧va

Noun

larva f (plural larvas)

  1. larva
  2. (obsolete) ghost
    Synonym: fantasma
  3. (colloquial, El Salvador) freeloader
    Synonym: vivián

Adjective

larva m or f (masculine and feminine plural larvas)

  1. (colloquial, El Salvador) freeloading
    Synonym: vivián

Related terms

Further reading

  • “larva”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

Swedish

Etymology

From Latin larva (“facemask”). (Can this(+) etymology be sourced?)

Verb

larva (present larvar, preterite larvade, supine larvat, imperative larva)

  1. (reflexive) to behave flippantly, childishly or ridiculously; to tramp, to footle

Conjugation

Related terms

  • larv
  • larvig

Anagrams

  • Alvar, lavar, valar

Turkish

Etymology

From Latin larva.

Pronunciation

  • Hyphenation: lar‧va

Noun

larva (definite accusative larvayı, plural larvalar)

  1. larva.

Synonyms

  • kurtçuk
  • (archaic) sürfe

References

  • Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “larva”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
  • “larva”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu

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