mosca

mosca f (plural moscas)

1. fly (insect)

• Bal Palazios, Santiago (2002), “mosca”, in Dizionario breu de a luenga aragonesa, Zaragoza, ISBN 978-84-7753-949-0

From Latin musca.

mosca f (plural mosques)

1. fly (insect)

From Old Occitan mosca, from Latin musca, from a Proto-Indo-European root *mus-, *mu-, *mew-.

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /ˈmos.kə/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /ˈmos.ka/

mosca f (plural mosques)

1. fly (insect)

• moscallejar
• moscalló
• moscam
• moscard
• moscarda
• mosquejar
• mosquer
• mosquera
• mosquit

From Old Galician and Old Portuguese mosca, from Latin musca.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmoska̝/

mosca f (plural moscas)

1. fly (insect)
2. (television) digital on-screen graphic

• “mosca” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006-2012.
• “mosca” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
• “mosca” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
• “mosca” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “mosca” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

From Latin musca, from a Proto-Indo-European root *mus-, *mu-, *mew-. Compare Spanish and Italian mosca.

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mosca f (plural mosche)

1. fly

• occhio di mosca

• moscaio
• moscaiola
• moscerino
• moscone

mosca f (plural moscas)

1. fly (insect)

• AEDLL

From Old Occitan mosca, from Latin musca.

mosca f (plural moscas)

1. fly (insect)

From Latin muscam, accusative of musca.

• IPA^(key): [ˈmos.ka]

mosca f (plural moscas)

1. fly
   • c. 1250: Alfonso X, Lapidario, f. 31v.

     Et ſi tomaren cinco moſcas o ſiete ¬ les tollieren las cabeças ¬ las machucaren con eſta piedra. ¬ las puſieren ſobre la ferida dela bieſpa, ſana luego ¬ faz perder la dolor.

     And if the took five flies, or seven, and they took their heads and crushed them with this stone, and they put them on a wasp sting, it would then heal it and alleviate the pain.

• mosquito (“mosquito”)

• Ladino: moshka (Latin spelling), מושקה‎ (Hebrew spelling)
• Spanish: mosca

From Old Portuguese mosca, from Latin musca, from a Proto-Indo-European root *mus-, *mu-, *mew-.

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈmos.ka/, /ˈmoʃ.ka/
• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈmoʃ.kɐ/
• Hyphenation: mos‧ca

mosca f (plural moscas)

1. fly (insect)
2. soul patch (narrow beard)

• mosquito

From Old Spanish mosca, from Latin musca, from a Proto-Indo-European root *mus-, *mu-, *mew-.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmoska/
• Rhymes: -oska

mosca f (plural moscas)

1. fly (any insect of the order Diptera)
2. (boxing) fly (boxing class)
3. (television) digital on-screen graphic

• amoscar

• “mosca” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.