# centipede
## English

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### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* (UK) IPA: /ˈsɛn.tɪ.pid/
* Audio (Southern England):(file)

### Noun

centipede (plural centipedes)
* 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, 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.
* (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, hundred-legs

#### Derived terms

* centipedal
* centipede-eater
* centipede game
* centipede grass
* garden centipede
* house centipede
* pseudocentipede
* sea centipede
* soil centipede
* stone centipede

#### Translations

Acehnese: limpeuën
Afrikaans: duisendpoot
Albanian: shumëkëmbësh
Arabic: أُمّ أَرْبَعَة وَأَرْبَعِين (ʔumm ʔarbaʕa(t) waʔarbaʕīn), 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) (baak$^3$ zuk$^1$) (colloquial,more common), 蜈蚣 (ng$^4$ gung$^1$) (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)
Kurdish:
Central Kurdish: سەدپێ (sedpê)
Northern Kurdish: sedpê (ku)
Kyrgyz: кырк аяк (kırk ayak), миң аяк (miŋ ayak)
Lao: ເຂັບ (khep), ຈະເຂັບ (cha khep), ຈີ່ເຂັບ (chī khep), ສະຕະບາດ (sa ta bāt)
Latin: centipeda f, scolopendra f
Latvian: simtkāji
Linngithigh: mbiwgh
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
Ottoman Turkish: قرق آیاق (kırk ayak)
Persian: صدپا (fa) (sad-pâ), پرپا (fa)
Polish: stonoga (pl) f, parecznik m
Portuguese: centopeia (pt) f, lacraia (pt) f, centípede m, quilópode
Quechua: pachakchaki
Romanian: centiped
Russian: сороконо́жка (ru) f (sorokonóžka)
Sanskrit: वृश्चिक (sa) m (vṛścika)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: стонога f
Roman: stonoga (sh) f
Sicilian: centu-pedi m
Slovak: stonožka f
Slovene: stonoga (sl)
Spanish: ciempiés (es) m, escolopendra f
Sranan Tongo: lusumbe
Sundanese: babakaur
Swahili: tandu (sw)
Swedish: enkelfoting (sv) c, tusenfoting (sv) c (everyday language)
Tagal Murut: nipal, ripal
Tagalog: alupihan (tl)
Tajik: чилпо (čilpo), ҳазорпо (hazorpo)
Tarifit: tamšeṭ n iysan f
Thai: ตะขาบ (th) (dtà-kàap)
Tibetan: རྐང་བརྒྱ (rkang brgya, literally “hundred-feet”), 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), tít (vi)
Waray-Waray: ulalahipan
Welsh: neidr gantroed
West Coast Bajau: melipan
Yiddish: סענטיפּעדע (sentipede)
Zazaki: şaney ceniya
Zhuang: sipndangj :

### See also

* millipede
* myriapod

### References

* ↑ “centipede, n.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
* ↑ Douglas Harper (2001–2025) “centipede (n.)”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.

## Latin
### Noun

centipede
* ablative singular of centipēs