chrysalis
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: 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.
Inflected forms:
form: chrysalises
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: chrysalides
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: chrysalisses
pos: noun
tags: plural
rare
form: chrysallis
pos: noun
tags: alternative
rare
form: chrysalid
pos: noun
tags: alternative
archaic
form: chrysaloid
pos: noun
tags: alternative
archaic
form: chrysalises
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: chrysalising
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: chrysalised
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: chrysalised
pos: verb
tags: past
form: chrysallis
pos: verb
tags: alternative
rare
form: chrysalid
pos: verb
tags: alternative
archaic
form: chrysaloid
pos: verb
tags: alternative
archaic
Senses:
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
examples: 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 beautiful butterflies, when they fly into the air as into their heaven, where the female sports with her male companion, as one conjugal partner with another, and they nourish themselves from odoriferous flowers, and lay their eggs, thus providing that their species may live after them: […]
The herbaceous or herbiferous produce had such gummy gelatinous properties, that tiniest tiddles incorporated themselves into huge chrysalisses, from whence monster butterflies egged it, all the world over, like snowberries, during a moist September, as soon as the blossom is by!
Caterpillars, chrysalisses soon reveal / The future gandy butterfly.
Fanny was afraid. She was like an insect new-hatched from its chrysalis, naked and unprotected in a dawn she could not face.
A project on butterflies! And caterpillars and chrysalisses and things, and lots of nice drawings, coloured with felt pens.
gloss: The bare hanging cocoon of butterfly pupae; (originally) any cocoon.
pos: noun
gloss: Any limiting environment or situation escaped during one's growth or development in the manner of a butterfly.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
examples: However, with the dainty volume my quondam friend sprang into fame. At the same time he cast off the chrysalis of a commonplace existence.
No, no matter how far Ray Kurzweil gets with his artificial intelligence project at Google, we cannot simply rise from the chrysalis of matter as pure consciousness.
gloss: To form a chrysalis or cocoon.
pos: verb
examples: 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.
One memorable day last January a caterpillar which had chrysalised happily in a ventilator came out in the office in full glory as a butterfly, under the impression it was summer.
Only in spring does a fourth larva, similar to the second one, develop, chrysalising later and then becoming a beetle.
The length of the worm period with temperature 11·4°C is 40—42 days, and with 24·5°C is 8—11 days. It chrysalises on the plant.
These can be bought in any angling shop for a few pence, and can be kept in the fridge, to stop them from chrysalising, for at least a month.
I hope to send it home if it chrysalises.
The Caterpillar, on the other hand, has a very firm understanding of the self he is, and cannot understand why Alice is not equally certain about her self; yet, as Alice later points out, the Caterpillar will at some stage undergo his own transformation, much more fundamental than hers, when he chrysalises and transforms into a butterfly.
gloss: To metamorphize, to undergo metamorphosis, to transform.
pos: verb
examples: 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.
“THE PALACE OF PUCK” CHRYSALISED INTO MUSICAL COMEDY—BUTTERFLIES AT THE APOLLO
Here philosophic thought overgrows art and compels it to cling close to the trunk of dialectics. The Apollonian tendency has chrysalised in the logical schematism; just as something analogous in the case of Euripides (and moreover a translation of the Dionysian into the naturalistic emotion) was forced upon our attention.
Operations of the Company are at present in the transition stage; the proposition is chrysalising from the state of initial enterprise into the larger magnitude of one of the foremost […]
Their sizes are determined by the size and depth of lift-pump, always allowing a large margin of safety for flaws, fatigue of metal, changes of temperature and anno domini which is for ever chrysalising and rendering them brittle.
That was several years ago, and sure enough the tomboy chrysalised into the being known as “the Gellibrand,” the sophisticated beauty, the hot-house specimen who wore mediæval garments, and who moved instinctively in slow motion, about whom the whole town was talking.
A government caterpillar is chrysalising: what kind of butterfly flies away remains a matter for conjecture.
The skinny, dark-eyed girl whom I had refused to kiss—when we played “Johnny Brown” so many years before—had chrysalised into a slim-waisted butterfly who was quick to turn the tables on me.
Jessamine Morrow had chrysalised overnight: she was a monarch butterfly.
When the event of meeting is past, when the I-Thou butterfly has been chrysalised into I-She, or I-He, or other forms of I-It, the possibility of relationship still continues, and genuine relationship deepens through everyday interactions between moments of I-Thou meetings.
Drumlin Caddis, Sentinel, has chrysalised and emerged as the Lord Freyr’s envoi.
The rugby club disbanded in 1896 for twenty-two years, five years before the football team chrysalised into Worcester City.
This who had chrysalised from beneath the thick middens of all our campfires, yet perfectly unmiff’d in manikin form of the mature woman that was just before us at the money drawer and now replaced.
Now that the sullen, dowdy-looking girl from the caravan had chrysalised into a sexy young woman, they wanted her more than ever.
Derived words: chrysalid
chrysaline
Chrysalis
chrysalised
chrysalism
chrysaloid
teleiochrysalis
Translations:
lang: Arabic
word: خَادِرَة
roman: ḵādira
lang: Armenian
word: հարսնյակ
roman: harsnyak
lang: Asturian
word: crisálida
lang: Belarusian
word: ку́калка
roman: kúkalka
lang: Belarusian
word: ля́лечка
roman: ljálječka
lang: Bulgarian
word: какавида
roman: kakavida
lang: Catalan
word: crisàlide
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 蝶蛹
roman: diéyǒng
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 蛹
roman: yǒng
lang: Czech
word: kukla
lang: Dutch
word: pop
lang: Estonian
word: nukk
lang: Finnish
word: kotelo
lang: French
word: chrysalide
lang: Galician
word: crisálide
lang: Galician
word: crisálida
lang: Georgian
word: ჭუპრი
roman: č̣uṗri
lang: German
word: Puppe
lang: Greek
word: χρυσαλλίδα
roman: chrysallída
lang: Hebrew
word: גולם
roman: gólem
lang: Hungarian
word: báb
lang: Icelandic
word: púpa
lang: Italian
word: crisalide
lang: Japanese
word: 蛹
roman: sanagi
lang: Kazakh
word: қуыршақ
roman: quyrşaq
lang: Khmer
word: ដក់ដឿ
roman: dɑkdɨə
lang: Korean
word: 번데기
roman: beondegi
lang: Malay
word: kepompong
lang: Māori
word: tūngoungou
lang: Pitjantjatjara
word: impi
lang: Polish
word: poczwarka motyla
lang: Portuguese
word: crisálida
lang: Portuguese
word: crisálide
lang: Romanian
word: crisalidă
lang: Russian
word: ку́колка
roman: kúkolka
lang: Russian
word: хризали́да
roman: xrizalída
lang: Scottish Gaelic
word: cochall
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: kukuljica
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: lutka
lang: Slovak
word: kukla
lang: Slovene
word: buba
lang: Spanish
word: crisálida
lang: Swedish
word: puppa
lang: Tagalog
word: tilas
lang: Thai
word: ดักแด้
roman: dàk-dɛ̂ɛ
lang: Turkish
word: koza
lang: Ukrainian
word: ля́лечка
roman: ljálečka
lang: Vietnamese
word: nhộng
lang: Volapük
word: krüsalid
lang: Welsh
word: crysalis
lang: Welsh
word: chwiler