Masculine
moustique
- (masculine) mosquito
- (masculine) gnat
- (France, masculine, slang) pest
Frequency
Pronounced as (IPA)
/mus.tik/
Etymology
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”).
Mücke
mosquito
zanzara
mug komar
mosquit
sivrisinek
culex
κουνούπι
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