mosquito

Betekenis (Engels)

Noun

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, dengue and yellow fever.

Verb

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

Sinonieme

gnat

midge

fly

✈️

skeeter

culex

sandfly

aedes

anopheles

anopheline

bee

🐝

bug

🐛

gadfly

wriggler

culicidae

Vertalings

moustique

🦟

mosquito

🦟

zanzara

🦟

Mücke

Moskito

🦟

mosquito

🦟

mug

🦟

mosquit

🦟

muskiet

κουνούπι

Stechmücke

🦟

culex

zancudo

sivrisinek

🦟

Uitgespreek as (IPA)

/məˈski.toʊ/

Etimologie (Engels)

Verwante met Vlaams: meuzie

Verwante met Sweeds: mausa

Verwante met Litaus: musė

Verwante met Sisiliaans: muschitta

In summary

Borrowed from Spanish mosquito (“gnat”), diminutive of mosca (“fly”), from Latin musca (“fly”), from Proto-Indo-European *mūs- (“fly, stinging fly, gnat”). Cognate with West Flemish meuzie (“mosquito”), dialectal Swedish mausa (“mosquito”), Lithuanian musė (“a fly”) and Sicilian muschitta (“midge”). See also midge. First attested in the 1580s.