different between mosquito vs dengue

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

Etymology

From Spanish dengue, 1828.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?d???i/, /?d???e?/
• (UK) IPA^(key): /?d???i/
• (India) IPA^(key): /?????i/, /??????/
• (Philippine English) IPA^(key): /??????/

Noun

dengue (usually uncountable, plural dengues)

1. An acute febrile disease of the (sub)tropics caused by the Dengue virus, a flavivirus, transmitted by Aedes mosquitoes, and characterized by high fever, rash, headache, and severe muscle and joint pain.

Synonyms

• breakbone fever
• dandy fever
• dengue fever

Derived terms

• dengue hemorrhagic fever
• dengue shock syndrome

Translations

Further reading

• dengue on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• unedge

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish dengue or indirectly via French dengue (itself from Spanish), probably from Swahili dinga.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?d??.?e?/, /?d??.??/
• Hyphenation: den?gue

Noun

dengue f (uncountable)

1. (medicine, jargon) dengue, febrile disease caused by the Dengue virus [from late 19th c.]

   Synonym: knokkelkoorts

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d???/
• Homophones: dingue, dingues

Noun

dengue f (plural dengues)

1. (pathology) dengue

Further reading

• “dengue” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• duègne

Galician

Etymology

Unknown. Attested since 1840.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?d????], (NW) [?d??k?]

Noun

dengue m (plural dengues)

1. (clothing) kind of cape which, worn as a jacket, is part of the traditional women's attire of Galicia and Asturias

References

• “dengue” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
• “dengue” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “dengue” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Portuguese

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Spanish dengue.

Noun

dengue f (plural dengues)

1. (pathology) dengue (disease)

Etymology 2

Noun

dengue m (plural dengues)

1. tantrum

Derived terms

• dengo
• denguice

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?den?e/, [?d???.?e]

Etymology 1

Uncertain. Possibly from Swahili dinga (“sudden attack, seizure”).

Noun

dengue m (plural dengues)

1. dengue (disease)

Etymology 2

Onomatopoeic

Noun

dengue m (plural dengues)

1. playacting (overdramatic behaviour)