chrysalis
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chrysalis¹
- /ˈkɹɪsəlɪs/
Where it comes from
From Latin chrysalis, variant of chrȳsallis, from Ancient Greek χρυσαλλίς (khrusallís), usually derived from χρυσός (khrusós, “gold, golden”) + -αλλ- + -ις (-is, “-id: forming feminine nouns”) but compare θρυαλλίς (thruallís) and ἀρυβαλλίς (aruballís), both believed to come from a Pre-Greek substrate on the basis of their unusual endings.
noun chrysalises · chrysalides · chrysalisses · chrysallis · chrysalid · chrysaloid
- A butterfly pupa or the pupal stage of the butterfly lifestyle; (originally) any pupal stage of any insect wherein the pupa is largely inactive and takes no food. Amongst the particular signs testifying the same thing, are also those exhibited by worms which feed on herbs, which, when they are to undergo a metamorphosis, encompass themselves as with a womb, that they may be born again, being therein changed into nymphs and chrysalisses, and presently into bea
- The bare hanging cocoon of butterfly pupae; (originally) any cocoon.
- Any limiting environment or situation escaped during one's growth or development in the manner of a butterfly. However, with the dainty volume my quondam friend sprang into fame. At the same time he cast off the chrysalis of a commonplace existence.
verb chrysalises · chrysalising · chrysalised · chrysallis · chrysalid
- To form a chrysalis or cocoon. June 11. it chryſaliſed into a ſmall round ſilk-bag, mothed the 27th. […] The ground of the caterpillar is yellow, thick ſet with warts, and black-haired ſtars; chryſaliſed into a ſilk-bag Jan. 17. hatched the 28th into a yellow moth, ſhaded with red, as the painting repreſents it.
- To metamorphize, to undergo metamorphosis, to transform. He is in uniform, and for three years flutters on the parade, in the beer-gardens, in the gallery at the theatre, and then he chrysalises into the old paternal bauer suit and the patriarchal ideas.
Chrysalis²
Where it comes from
From chrysalis. Coined in 2022.
proper noun
- A hypothetical former moon of Saturn, whose gravitational influence is proposed as the source of Saturn's inclination and near-resonance with Uranus, and whose destruction by gravitational disruption is proposed as the source of Saturn's rings.
- A proposed generation ship, which would use fusion rockets and take 400 years to travel from the Sun to Alpha Centauri. See PROJECT HYPERION and Project Hyperion (interstellar).
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noun the pupa of a butterfly
| Español | crisálida |
|---|---|
| 한국어 | 번데기 beondegi |
| 日本語 | 蛹 sanagi |
| 中文 | 蝶蛹 diéyǒng, 蛹 yǒng |
| Português | crisálida, crisálide |
| Français | chrysalide |
| Deutsch | Puppe |
| Italiano | crisalide |
| Ελληνικά | χρυσαλλίδα chrysallída |
| Română | crisalidă |
| Русский | ку́колка kúkolka, хризали́да xrizalída |
| Tiếng Việt | nhộng |
| العربية | خَادِرَة ḵādira |
| עברית | גולם gólem |
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title = {chrysalis},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
year = {2026},
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