Derived from the latin word insectum for "With a notched or divided body".
Ο αρχηγός των εντόμων (O arhiyos ton entomon) "y" is pronounced like in the word year
"Bug" meaning "insect" dates from about 1622. "Bug" meaning "annoy" didn't start until 1949, and yes, probably did come from the fact that insects are annoying.
The English meaning for the Kikuyu word cukuru is the school.
Stick insects are in the order Phasmatodea (sometimes called Phasmida). The name comes from the Greek word phasma, meaning a phantom or ghost, because the insects look like sticks or leaves..
Solid excrement from insects is the meaning of the English word "frass." The English noun originates in the same-spelled German derivative of the infinitive fressen ("to feed or to gobble like an animal"). It currently refers to waste products from larval stages of insects and to the non-digested, non-eliminated refuse by-products of boring insects tunneling through wood.
insect
1620s Middle English bugge, meaning an insect.
It is of unknown origin, but refers to the 'feelers or horns' of insects. There is some connection with a Latin word Antenna meaning 'sail yard' something like a 'mast'. There is also an old Greek word (keraiai) that refers to the 'horns of insects' The word "Antenna" is of Sanskrit origin (or maybe Hindu), and stands for: Ignorance.
The common name may be from the old English word moughte meaning "moth," or mucgwyrt, meaning "midgewort," referring to the plant's folk use to repel moths and other insects.
It is a word from Inuyasha, Sonyosho which means insects of hell
The study of insects is Entomology.
Don't bug me. Entomology is the study of insects. ETYMOLOGY is the study of word origins, and "geometry" comes from an Ancient Greek word meaning "earth-measuring" -- what we now call "surveying".