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mosquito
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Spanish mosquito (“gnat”), diminutive of mosca (“fly”), from Latin musca (“fly”), from Proto-Indo-European *m?s- (“fly, stinging fly, gnat”). Cognate with West Flemish meuzie (“mosquito”), dialectal Swedish mausa (“mosquito”), Lithuanian mus? (“a fly”) and Sicilian muschitta (“midge”). See also midge.
Pronunciation
- (Canada, US) IPA(key): /m??ski.to?/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /m?s?ki?.t??/
- Rhymes: -i?t??
Noun
mosquito (plural mosquitos or mosquitoes)
- A small flying insect of the family Culicidae, the females of which bite humans and animals and suck blood, leaving an itching bump on the skin, and sometimes carrying diseases like malaria and yellow fever.
Hypernyms
- gnat
- midge
Derived terms
Related terms
- Diminutive: mossie/mozzie (Australia, UK) or skeeter (US)
Translations
Verb
mosquito (third-person singular simple present mosquitos, present participle mosquitoing, simple past and past participle mosquitoed)
- To fly close to the ground, seemingly without a course.
Galician
Noun
mosquito m (plural mosquitos)
- mosquito
Italian
Noun
mosquito m (plural mosquiti)
- mosquito
Old Spanish
Etymology
From mosca, mosco (“fly”) +? -ito.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [mos?ki.to]
Noun
mosquito m (plural mosquitos)
- Diminutive of mosca; a mosquito.
- c. 1250, Alfonso X, Lapidario, f. 107v:
- […] ?era aguardado del danno delos mo?quitos. ¬ de todas maneras de mo?cas que seá pozonadas o mordedores. / Et e?to es mas de?cendiédo ?obre?ta piedra la útud de fi?a de mo?q?to, o de alguna de?tas otras mo?cas que dixiemos.
- […] he will be kept from the harm of mosquitos and all manners of flies that are venomous or that bite. And this will happen more when over this stone descends the virtue of the figure of the mosquito, or that of another one of the flies we mentioned.
- […] ?era aguardado del danno delos mo?quitos. ¬ de todas maneras de mo?cas que seá pozonadas o mordedores. / Et e?to es mas de?cendiédo ?obre?ta piedra la útud de fi?a de mo?q?to, o de alguna de?tas otras mo?cas que dixiemos.
- c. 1250, Alfonso X, Lapidario, f. 107v:
Descendants
- Spanish: mosquito
- ? English: mosquito
Portuguese
Etymology
From mosca +? -ito.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /mu?.?ki.t?/, /mus.?ki.t?/
Noun
mosquito m (plural mosquitos)
- mosquito
Spanish
Etymology
mosca +? -ito (diminutive suffix), or Old Spanish moquito. Cognate with Sicilian muschitta (“midge”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /mos?kito/, [mos?ki.t?o]
Noun
mosquito m (plural mosquitos)
- mosquito
- Synonyms: zancudo, (Mexico) moyote
- gnat
- (Mexico, colloquial) trimmer
- Diminutive of mosco, small fly
Derived terms
- mosquitero
- mosquito simúlido
- mosquito tigre
See also
- jején m
mosquito From the web:
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- what mosquito carries west nile
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- what mosquito carries yellow fever
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anopheles
English
Wikispecies
Etymology
From Ancient Greek ???????? (an?phel?s, “useless”).
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /??n?f?li?z/
Noun
anopheles (plural anopheles)
- (entomology) Loose terminology for species in the Anopheles genus of mosquitoes, some of which may transmit various parasites, Plasmodium, that are the cause of malaria. More strictly speaking, as Anopheles is a proper name it should be capitalised.
- 1983, Lawrence Durrell, Sebastian, Faber & Faber 2004 (Avignon Quintet), p. 1125:
- ‘I brought it back from the desert – they have been planting rice like fools, and now you get anopheles right up to the gates of Alexandria!’
- 1983, Lawrence Durrell, Sebastian, Faber & Faber 2004 (Avignon Quintet), p. 1125:
Related terms
- Anopheles
- anopheline
Translations
Anagrams
- phenolase, salophene
anopheles From the web:
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- what is anopheles gambiae
- what does anopheles mean
- what do anopheles mosquitoes eat
- what is anopheles stephensi
- what is anopheles in biology
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