arachnid

arachnid
arachnid (n.) "a spider," 1869, from Fr. arachnide (1806) or Mod.L. Arachnida, introduced as name for this class of arthropods 1815 by French biologist Jean Baptiste Pierre Antoine de Monet de Lamarck (1744-1829), from Gk. arakhne (fem.) "spider; spider's web," which probably is cognate with L. aranea "spider, spider's web," from aracsna [Buck]. An earlier noun form was arachnidian (1828).

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