mosquito

Signification (Anglais)

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.

Concepts

moustique

🦟

maringouin

cousin

moucheron

de moustique

moustiques

Culicidae

maringouins

culicidae

coussin

mouche

🪰

de cousin

Synonymes

gnat

midge

fly

✈️

skeeter

culex

sandfly

aedes

anopheles

anopheline

bee

🐝

bug

🐛

gadfly

wriggler

culicidae

Traductions

mosquito

🦟

zanzara

🦟

Mücke

Moskito

🦟

mug

🦟

mosquito

🦟

mosquit

🦟

muskiet

κουνούπι

Stechmücke

🦟

culex

zancudo

sivrisinek

🦟

mosquilh

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/məˈski.toʊ/

Étymologie (Anglais)

Appartenant à flamand occidental: meuzie

Appartenant à suédois: mausa

Appartenant à lituanien: musė

Appartenant à sicilien: 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.