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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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torsalo
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Spanish tórsalo.
Noun
torsalo (plural torsalos)
- A parasitic fly, Dermatobia hominis, which lives as a larva in the skin of mammals, including humans, and uses mosquitoes as a vector.
Synonyms
- American warble fly, human botfly, ox-bot, ox botfly, ox warbler
Translations
torsalo From the web:
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