mosquito

Significat (Anglès)

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.

Conceptes

mosquit

🦟

cúlex

🦟

Sinònims

gnat

midge

fly

✈️

skeeter

culex

sandfly

aedes

anopheles

anopheline

bee

🐝

bug

🐛

gadfly

wriggler

culicidae

Traduccions

moustique

🦟

mosquito

🦟

zanzara

🦟

Mücke

Moskito

🦟

mug

🦟

mosquito

🦟

muskiet

Stechmücke

🦟

κουνούπι

culex

zancudo

sivrisinek

🦟

mosquilh

Pronunciat com a (IPA)

/məˈski.toʊ/

Etimologia (Anglès)

Cognat amb flamenc occidental: meuzie

Cognat amb suec: mausa

Cognat amb lituà: musė

Cognat amb sicilià: 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.