Italian scooter named for an insect

• Hornet, e.g.
• Hip scooter
• Turin two-wheeler
• Vehicle whose name means "wasp"
• Type genus of the Vespidae various hornets and yellow jackets
• What Italians may use to commute
• Motor scooter maker
• Big name in little transports

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1950, proprietary name of an Italian make of motor scooter, first produced 1946, from Italian, literally "wasp," from Latin vespa (see wasp ). Rival brand was Lambretta .

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