What is the Latin word for "insect"?

Answer 1

In ancient Latin "Insectum",according with my dictionary, is not translating insect but it's the perfect passive of the verb Insecare.(inseco,insecas, insecui, insecare, insectus )
cut/incise; make incision in; make by cutting; cut into/up (L+S); dissect.

I support above Dullhouse's answer.
The word insect,as per my dictionary, can be :

bestiola, bestiolae N (1st) F
little creature, insect;

animal, animalis N (3rd) N
animal, living thing/offspring; creature, beast, brute; insect;

volucris, volucris N (3rd) F
bird, flying insect/creature

cinyphes, cinyphis N (3rd) F
kind of stinging insect; very small flies, gnats;

Answer 2

My dictionary (New College Latin & English) lists both insectum and bestiola. There were several words in Lewis & Short for specific types of insects, but the word insect itself does not seem to have been used that often in written sources (which is all we have to go by). Pliny seems to have been the only one.

Insectum would be the proper, "scientific" word (the same way we use insect), and bestiola would have been the common everyday word (the way we use bug). You would not see the word "bug" in proper written English, which is probably why bestiola does not show up when searching for insect in Lewis & Short. It is an informal word.

Answer 3

Latin Word For Fly

Answer 4

insectum

Some clarification needed here as most Latin dictionaries do not do into detail about the usage of words. My source is the grand dictionary of them all for Latin vocabulary and examples of usage.

bestiola was used in Classical Latin to mean a small animal or little beast.

volucris referred generally to a bird or flying creature. If they wanted to refer to something as small as a fly for example, they would say "volucris parvula". However not all insects fly...

animal relates to a living being, animal

cinyphes "gnats" is a word borrowed from Greek and the example given in my source is from 7th century AD - very late Latin

But the word used by Pliny, the Natural Historian of 1st century ad to describe insects was ~ insecta ~ which is the plural of insectum, derived from the verb inseco, but nevertheless a word in its own right.

Answer 5

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What is the Latin word for "insect"?

Answer 6

bestiola - that's sort of generic for insect.

cinyphes = a stinging insect

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My references show 'insecta', but only as a scientific, technical term and only used in the plural, with 'bestiola' used normally. For example,

Bestiolae quae unum diem vivunt - insects which live but a day. Cicero, Disputationes Tusculanae.

Answer 7

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Answer 8

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Answer 9

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Answer 10

insect
insecto -are and insector -ari dep. [to follow closely , pursue, harry; to harry with abuse, rail at, reproach].
volucer volucris volucre [flying , winged; fleet, swift, fleeting]. F. as subst. volucris -is, [a bird or flying insect].