moustique

Meaning

1. (masculine) mosquito
2. (masculine) gnat
3. (France, masculine, slang) pest

Concepts

mosquito

🦟

gnat

midge

skeeter

sandfly

mosquitoes

Culicidae

Synonyms

moucheron

cousin

Culicidae

maringouin

culicidae

maringouin

coussin

moustiques

maringouins

Translations

Mücke

mosquito

🦟

mosquito

🦟

zanzara

🦟

mug

🦟

Moskito

🦟

mosquit

🦟

sivrisinek

🦟

culex

Stechmücke

🦟

κουνούπι

moissal

steekmug

🦟

mosquilh

Pronounced as (IPA)

/mus.tik/

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish: mosquito

In summary

Borrowed from Spanish mosquito, diminutive of mosca, from Latin musca, whence also the French doublet mouche (“a fly”). The metathesis of /k/ and /t/ might have been due to influence of tique (“a tick”).