arachnid

• n. 蛛形類
• クモの仲間

神話より。ギリシャ神話では、蜘蛛の巣を編むのが得意で自信過剰だった乙女アラクネが、アテナへの挑戦に敗れて蜘蛛に変えられてしまった。

arachnid (n.)

"a spider," 1869, from French arachnide (1806) or Modern Latin Arachnida, introduced as name for this class of arthropods 1815 by French biologist Jean Baptiste Pierre Antoine de Monet de Lamarck (1744-1829), from Greek arakhne (fem.) "spider; spider's web," which probably is cognate with Latin aranea "spider, spider's web" (borrowed in Old English as renge "spider"), from aracsna. The Latin word could be a Greek borrowing or both could be from a common root. An earlier noun form was arachnidian (1828).

1. One of the most unexpected surprises was my encounter with a race of arachnid creatures.

最も思いがけない発見の1つは、私と一族のクモ類生物との出会いです。

2.I want that wall-crawling arachnid prosecuted！

壁を這う八本足の怪物を起訴する！

3.Lifting the tiny arachnid ，he transported it over to the opposite side of the road.

この小動物を持ち上げて、彼はそれを道の反対側に置いた。

4.The tiny arachnid ，found in Australia，shows off a rainbow of colours to impress nearby females.

オーストラリアにいるこのクモは、近くのメスにその華麗な色を誇示している。