muskiet

Meaning

1. (masculine) a tropical mosquito of the family Culicidae that feeds on blood
2. (masculine) any blood-sucking species of mosquito of the family Culicidae

Concepts

mosquito

🦟

gnat

midge

skeeter

Synonyms

mug

🦟

steekmug

🦟

Hyphenated as

mus‧kiet

Pronounced as (IPA)

/mʏsˈkit/

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish: mosquito

Borrowed from Portuguese: mosquito

Cognate with Swedish: -

Cognate with Lithuanian: musė

In summary

Borrowed from Spanish mosquito (“gnat”) or Portuguese mosquito, diminutive of Spanish/Portuguese mosca (“fly”), from Latin musca (“fly”), from Proto-Indo-European *mūs- (“fly, stinging fly, gnat”). Cognate with West-Flemish meuzie (“mosquito”), Swedish dialectal mausa (“mosquito”), Lithuanian musė (“a fly”). See also midge.