mosquito

Εννοια (Αγγλικός)

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.

Έννοιες

κουνούπι

σκνίπα

ku’nupi

kounoúpi

Συνώνυμα

gnat

midge

fly

✈️

skeeter

culex

sandfly

aedes

anopheles

anopheline

bee

🐝

bug

🐛

gadfly

wriggler

culicidae

Μεταφράσεις

moustique

🦟

mosquito

🦟

zanzara

🦟

Mücke

Moskito

🦟

mug

🦟

mosquito

🦟

mosquit

🦟

muskiet

Stechmücke

🦟

culex

zancudo

sivrisinek

🦟

mosquilh

Προφέρεται ως (IPA)

/məˈski.toʊ/

Ετυμολογία (Αγγλικός)

Συγγενές με Vlaams: meuzie

Συγγενές με Σουηδικά: mausa

Συγγενές με Λιθουανικά: musė

Συγγενές με Σικελικά: 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.