mofeta

Concepts

skunk

🦨

polecats

mephitis

polecat

frowst

Mustela eversmanni

Mustela putorius putorius

Synonyms

zorrillo

🦨

zorrino

🦨

chingue

🦨

tufo

Mustela putorius putorius

Turón

Veso

gato de madera

zorrina

tufarada

turón

zorro

🦊

Mustela eversmanni

Translations

Stinktier

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mouffette

🦨

puzzola

🦨

mephitis

Iltis

stinkdier

🦨

puzzole

putois

Skunk

🦨

μεφίτιδα

renardeau

قطط قطبية

mofeta

Hyphenated as

mo‧fe‧ta

Pronounced as (IPA)

/moˈfeta/

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian: mofeta

Cognate with English: mephitic

In summary

Borrowed from Italian mofeta (“pestilential exhalation”) and moffetta (“skunk”), from Latin mephitis (“sulphurous exhalation”), from which English mephitic descended.