noun, feminine/ɡɛp/plural: guêpes
wasp (any of many types of stinging flying insects resembling a hornet, normally of the suborder Apocrita)
Related: guêpe solitaire, guêpier, guêpière, taille de guêpe
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *webʰ- Proto-Indo-European *wóbʰseh₂der. Latin vespa ▲ Frankish *wapsuinflu. Old French guespe Middle French guespe French guêpe Inherited from Middle French guespe, from Old French guespe, wespe, wapce (“hornet, wasp”), from a conflation of Latin vespa (“wasp”), and Frankish *wapsu; both from Proto-Indo-European *wóbʰseh₂ (“wasp”).