centipede

See also: centípede and centipède

English

A centipede.

Wikispecies

Etymology

From French centipède, from Latin centipeda, centipēs, from centi- (“hundred”) + pēs (“foot”); equivalent to centi- +‎ -pede.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈsɛn.tɪ.pid/

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Noun

centipede (plural centipedes)

1. Any arthropod of class Chilopoda, which have a segmented body with one pair of legs per segment and from about 20 to 300 legs in total.
   • 1993, Gordon M. Nishida, JoAnn M. Tenorio, What Bit Me?: Identifying Hawai'i's Stinging and Biting Insects and Their Kin, page 29:

     Centipedes differ from millipedes by having a single pair of legs on each body segment.

   • 2008, Thom Holmes, March Onto Land: The Silurian Period to the Middle Triassic Epoch‎^[1], page 58:

     The existence of millipedes, centipedes, insects, and spiders along-side the first tetrapods sustained a robust ecosystem in which most animals were predators or scavengers.

   • 2011, Alan Gunn, Essential Forensic Biology, 2nd edition, unnumbered page:

     All centipedes (Chilopoda) and spiders (Aranea) are predatory and although they are often found on corpses their impact on the other fauna is not known.

2. (obsolete) A many-oared Chinese smuggling boat.

   Synonyms: fast crab, scrambling dragon

Usage notes

• The spelling "centiped" was formerly considered the only correct form by prescriptivists and is still preferred by many scientists who work with myriapods, but this spelling is by far the most common in actual use.

Synonyms

• (any species of class Chilopoda): chilopod

Derived terms

• centipede-eater
• centipede game
• centipede grass
• garden centipede
• house centipede
• sea centipede
• soil centipede
• stone centipede

 

Translations

a segmented arthropod of class Chilopoda

• Acehnese: limpeuën
• Afrikaans: duisendpoot
• Albanian: njëqindkëmbëshi
• Arabic: أُمّ أَرْبَع وَأَرْبَعِين (ʔumm ʔarbaʕ waʔarbaʕīn), ^{(please verify)} حَرِيش m (ḥarīš)
• Assamese: চেলা (sela)
• Azerbaijani: qırxayaq (az)
• Bahnar: kơep
• Banjarese: halilipan (bjn)
• Bau Bidayuh: ripapien
• Belarusian: саракано́жка f (sarakanóžka)
• Bengali: কেন্নো (bn) (kennō)
• Bulgarian: стоно́жка f (stonóžka)
• Burmese: ကင်းခြေများ (my) (kang:hkre-mya:)
• Catalan: centpeus
• Cebuano: ulahipan
• Central Melanau: belipan
• Chepang: साव्
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 百足 (yue) (baak³ zuk¹) (colloquial,more common), 蜈蚣 (ng⁴ gung¹) (literary, formal)

  Mandarin: 蜈蚣 (zh) (wúgōng)

• Czech: stonožka (cs) f
• Danish: skolopender
• Darkinjung: búrranburran
• Dutch: duizendpoot (nl) m
• Egyptian: (zpꜣ)
• Esperanto: centpiedulo
• Estonian: sadajalgne
• Finnish: juoksujalkainen (fi)
• French: scolopendre (fr) m
• Galician: cempés (gl), escoupoleión m, rapacodelas m, cerradela f
• Georgian: ცხრაფეხა (cxrapexa)
• German: Tausendfüßler (de) m, Tausendfüßer (de) m (rare, dated, or regional) Hundertfüßler m, Hundertfüßer m
• Greek: σαρανταποδαρούσα (el) f (sarantapodaroúsa)

  Ancient: ἴουλος m (íoulos)

• Guaraní: japeusa, ambu'a
• Haitian Creole: miryapod, annipye
• Hawaiian: kanapī
• Hebrew: נָדָל (he) m (nadal)
• Hindi: कनखजूरा m (kanakhjūrā), खजूरा (hi) m (khajūrā), कनसलाई (hi) f (kanaslāī), शतपाद (hi) m (śatpād), शतपद (hi) m (śatpad), शतपदी (hi) f (śatapdī), गोजर (hi) m (gojar), चालीसपद m (cālīspad)
• Hungarian: százlábú (hu)
• Icelandic: margfætla f
• Ilocano: gayadan
• Indonesian: kelabang (id), lipan (id)
• Irish: céadchosach
• Italian: centopiedi (it) m
• Jamaican Creole: forty leg
• Japanese: 百足 (ja) (むかで, mukade)
• Kapampangan: laipan
• Kazakh: қырықаяқ (qyryqaäq), ерінаяқты (erınaäqty)
• Khasi: ktiar
• Khmer: ក្អែប (km) (kʼaep)
• Korean: 지네 (ko) (jine)
• Kyrgyz: кырк аяк (kırk ayak), миң аяк (miŋ ayak)
• Lao: ເຂັບ (khep), ຈະເຂັບ (cha khep), ຈີ່ເຂັບ (chī khep), ສະຕະບາດ (sa ta bāt)
• Latin: scolopendra f
• Latvian: simtkāji
• Lithuanian: lūpakojai
• Macedonian: стоногалка f (stonogalka)
• Maguindanao: layupan
• Malay: lipan (ms), sepesan, kelabang
• Malayalam: പഴുതാര (ml) (paḻutāra)
• Maltese: ċentupied m
• Maori: weri, wakapihau
• Maranao: ginigid
• Minangkabau: lipan, sipasan (min)
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: жаран хөлт (žaran xölt), зуун хөлт (zuun xölt), чичүүр (mn) (čičüür), чичүүр хорхой (čičüür xorxoj) (China)

  Mongolian: ᠵᠢᠷᠠᠨ
  ᠬᠥᠯᠲᠦ (ǰiran költü), ᠵᠠᠭᠤᠨ
  ᠬᠥᠯᠲᠦ (ǰaɣun költü), ᠴᠢᠴᠢᠭᠦᠷ (čičigür), ᠴᠢᠴᠢᠭᠦᠷ
  ᠬᠣᠷᠣᠬᠠᠢ (čičigür qoroqai)

• Nahuatl: petlazolcoatl
• Nandi: kimorin
• Navajo: jááłánii, jáád łánii
• Nepali: खजुरो (ne) (khajuro)
• Norman: bête à chent pids f
• Norwegian: skolopender m
• Persian: صدپا (fa) (sad-pâ), پرپا (fa)
• Polish: stonoga (pl) f, parecznik m
• Portuguese: centípede m, centopeia (pt) f, quilópode
• Quechua: pachakchaki
• Romanian: centiped
• Russian: сороконо́жка (ru) f (sorokonóžka)
• Sanskrit: वृश्चिक (sa) m (vṛścika)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: стонога f

  Roman: stonoga (sh) f

• Slovak: stonožka f
• Slovene: stonoga (sl)
• Spanish: ciempiés (es) m, escolopendra f
• Sundanese: babakaur
• Swahili: tandu (sw)
• Swedish: enkelfoting (sv) c
• Tagal Murut: nipal, ripal
• Tagalog: alupihan (tl)
• Tajik: чилпо (čilpo), ҳазорпо (hazorpo)
• Tarifit: tamšeṭ n iysan f
• Thai: ตะขาบ (th) (dtà-kàap)
• Tibetan: རྟ་བླ། (rta bla)
• Turkish: çıyan (tr)
• Turkmen: köpaýak
• Ukrainian: сороконі́жка f (sorokonížka)
• Urdu: کَنْکَھجُورا m (kankhajūrā)
• Uyghur: سەكسەنپۇت (seksenput), كىركەك قۇرۇت (kirkek qurut)
• Uzbek: qirqoyoq (uz), mingoyoq (uz)
• Vietnamese: rết (vi), rít (vi)
• Waray-Waray: ulalahipan
• Welsh: neidr gantroed
• West Coast Bajau: melipan
• Yiddish: סענטיפּעדע (sentipede)
• Zazaki: şaney ceniya
• Zhuang: sipndangj

See also

• millipede
• myriapod

Latin

Noun

centipede

1. ablative singular of centipēs