mosquito
See also: Mosquito
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Spanish mosquito (“gnat”), diminutive of 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.
Pronunciation
- (Canada, US) IPA(key): /məˈski.toʊ/
Audio (US) (file) - (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /mɒsˈkiː.təʊ/
Audio (UK) (file) - Rhymes: -iːtəʊ
Noun
mosquito (plural mosquitos or mosquitoes)
- A small flying insect of the family Culicidae, the females of which bite humans and animals and suck blood, leaving an itching bump on the skin, and sometimes carrying diseases like malaria and yellow fever.
Derived terms
- antimosquito
- malaria mosquito (Anopheles spp.)
- mosquito bar
- mosquito bite
- mosquitocide
- Mosquito Coast
- mosquito coil
- mosquitoey
- mosquito fern (Azolla spp.)
- mosquitofish (Gambusia spp. et al.)
- mosquito fleet
- mosquitogenic
- mosquito hawk (Tipulomorpha or Epiprocta)
- mosquito net
- mosquito netting
- mosquito wire
- tiger mosquito (Aedes spp.)
Translations
small flying insect of the family Culicidae, known for biting and sucking blood
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Verb
mosquito (third-person singular simple present mosquitos, present participle mosquitoing, simple past and past participle mosquitoed)
- To fly close to the ground, seemingly without a course.
Old Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [mosˈki.to]
Noun
mosquito m (plural mosquitos)
- diminutive of mosca; a mosquito.
- c. 1250, Alfonso X, Lapidario, f. 107v:
- […] ſera aguardado del danno delos moſquitos. ¬ de todas maneras de moſcas que seá pozonadas o mordedores. / Et eſto es mas deſcendiédo ſobreſta piedra la útud de fiǵa de moſq́to, o de alguna deſtas otras moſcas que dixiemos.
- […] he will be kept from the harm of mosquitos and all manners of flies that are venomous or that bite. And this will happen more when over this stone descends the virtue of the figure of the mosquito, or that of another one of the flies we mentioned.
- […] ſera aguardado del danno delos moſquitos. ¬ de todas maneras de moſcas que seá pozonadas o mordedores. / Et eſto es mas deſcendiédo ſobreſta piedra la útud de fiǵa de moſq́to, o de alguna deſtas otras moſcas que dixiemos.
- c. 1250, Alfonso X, Lapidario, f. 107v:
Portuguese
Pronunciation
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /muʃˈkitu/
Spanish
Etymology
mosca + -ito (diminutive suffix), or Old Spanish moquito.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /mosˈkito/, [mosˈkit̪o]
Derived terms
- mosquitero
- mosquito simúlido
See also
- jején m
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