different between mosquito vs culex

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

Wikispecies

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin culex (“gnat”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?kju?.l?ks/

Noun

culex (plural culices)

1. Any of various mosquitoes of the genus Culex, some of which carry disease.

Derived terms

• culicidal

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *?uH-ló-, see also Old Armenian ???? (slak?, “roasting spit”), Irish cuil (“mosquito”), and Welsh cylion (“gnats”)

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?ku.leks/, [?k????ks?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?ku.leks/, [?ku?l?ks]

Noun

culex m (genitive culicis); third declension

1. gnat, midge, mosquito
   • Erasmus, Adagia; 1.10.66

     Indus elephantus haud curat culicem.

     An Indian elephant does not worry about a gnat.

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Derived terms

• culic?nus

Descendants

• Italian: culice
• Catalan: cúlex
• French: cousin

References

• culex in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• culex in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• culex in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• culex in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers

Tetelcingo Nahuatl

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish coles (“cabbages”), plural of col (“cabbage”), from Latin caulis.

Compare Highland Puebla Nahuatl colex.

Noun

culex

1. Cabbage.

References

• Brewer, Forrest; Brewer, Jean G. (1962) Vocabulario mexicano de Tetelcingo, Morelos, segunda impresión edition, México, D.F.: Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, published 1971, page 23