Atta

Latin Atta (“a surname for persons who walk upon the tips of their shoes”), probably from Ancient Greek ᾁττω (hāittō), ᾁσσω (hāissō, “to spring”)

Atta f

1. A taxonomic genus within the family Formicidae – leaf-cutter ants.

• (genus): Eukaryota – superkingdom; Animalia – kingdom; Bilateria – subkingdom; Protostomia – infrakingdom; Ecdysozoa – superphylum; Arthropoda – phylum; Hexapoda – subphylum; Insecta – class; Pterygota – subclass; Neoptera – infraclass; Holometabola – superorder; Hymenoptera – order; Apocrita - suborder; Formicoidea - superfamily; Formicidae - family; Myrmicinae - subfamily; Attini - tribe

• (genus): Atta cephalotes - type species; for other species see Atta on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• Atta (genus) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Atta on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Atta on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
• Atta at Integrated Taxonomic Information System.
• Atta at the Catalogue of Life 

From atta (“a person who walks upon the tips of their shoes”).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈat.ta/, [ˈät̪ːä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈat.ta/, [ˈät̪ːä]

Atta m sg (genitive Attae); first declension

1. A Roman cognomen — famously held by:
   1. Titus Quinctius Atta, a Roman writer

First-declension noun, singular only.

• “Atta”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Atta in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.