different between mosquito vs cranefly

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)

1. 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)

1. To fly close to the ground, seemingly without a course.

Galician

Noun

mosquito m (plural mosquitos)

1. mosquito

Italian

Noun

mosquito m (plural mosquiti)

1. mosquito

Old Spanish

Etymology

From mosca, mosco (“fly”) +? -ito.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [mos?ki.to]

Noun

mosquito m (plural mosquitos)

1. 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.

Descendants

• Spanish: mosquito
  • ? English: mosquito

Portuguese

Etymology

From mosca +? -ito.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mu?.?ki.t?/, /mus.?ki.t?/

Noun

mosquito m (plural mosquitos)

1. 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)

1. mosquito

   Synonyms: zancudo, (Mexico) moyote

2. gnat
3. (Mexico, colloquial) trimmer
4. Diminutive of mosco, small fly

Derived terms

• mosquitero
• mosquito simúlido
• mosquito tigre

See also

• jején m

English

Alternative forms

• crane-fly
• crane fly

Etymology

crane +? fly

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?k?e?n?fla?/

Noun

cranefly (plural craneflies)

1. Any of various large flies of the suborder Tipulomorpha that have slender bodies and very long legs and that resemble giant mosquitoes.

Synonyms

• In UK: daddy longlegs
• In US: gullywhumper, gollywhopper, mosquito hawk

Coordinate terms

• leatherjacket (cranefly larva)

Translations

Further reading

• Cranefly on Wikipedia.Wikipedia