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English

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A mosquito (Aedes aegypti)

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Etymology

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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”), dialectal Swedish mausa (“fly”), Lithuanian musė (“a fly”) and Sicilian muschitta (“midge”). See also midge. First attested in the 1580s.

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mosquito (plural mosquitoes or mosquitos)

  2. 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, dengue and yellow fever.
    Synonyms: (UK, Australia, New Zealand, informal) mossie, mozzie, (US, informal) skeeter
    Hypernyms: gnat, midge
    • 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:
      I do not quite know what it was that made me poke my head out of the friendly shelter of the blanket, perhaps because I found that the mosquitoes were biting right through it.
    • 1941 March 12, Charles A. Lindbergh, The Wartime Journals of Charles A. Lindbergh, New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, published 1970, page 461:
      We lit a driftwood fire to help keep the mosquitoes away. It was partially successful.
    • 1987 May 9, Bod Lederer, “US Denies AIDS Bio War with Contradictions”, in Gay Community News, page 8:
      Nicaragua has been investigating the possibility that the 1985 outbreak of dengue fever along its Honduran border may have resulted from the release of infected mosquitos by U.S. reconnaissance overflights.
    • 2011, Sharon S. Delaney, Celestial Mesa: 2012, →ISBN, page 120:
      Sue had climbed up to the rafters and attached her mosquito netting over one of the exposed beams in the ceiling, and Edgar had climbed into the bed under it so no flying buzzies would mess with his ears.
    • 2019 October 24, Dennis Webster, “'An indictment of South Africa': whites-only town Orania is booming”, in The Guardian‎[1], archived from the original on 29 March 2022:
      October in Orania can be charming. When the sun sets, long ribbons of burnt orange settle on the horizon. The flies and mosquitoes that come with the oppressive summer heat haven’t arrived yet. It is Magdalene Kleynhans’ favourite time of year. “You can sit outside until late into the night,” says the businesswoman, whose family spend much of their time outdoors. Her children fish from the banks of the Orange River whenever they choose. Kleynhans leaves the house unlocked. “It’s a good life. It’s a big privilege.”

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  • → Cornish: moskito
  • Jamaican Creole: maskitta

Translations

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See mosquito/translations § Noun.

Verb

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mosquito (third-person singular simple present mosquitos, present participle mosquitoing, simple past and past participle mosquitoed)

  1. To fly close to the ground, seemingly without a course.

Galician

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /mosˈkito/ [mos̺ˈki.t̪ʊ]
  • Rhymes: -ito
  • Hyphenation: mos‧qui‧to

Noun

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mosquito m (plural mosquitos)

  1. mosquito

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Italian

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Noun

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mosquito m (plural mosquiti)

  1. mosquito

Old Spanish

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Etymology

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    From mosca (“fly”) +‎ -ito (diminutive suffix).

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    mosquito m (plural mosquitos)

    1. mosquito
      • c. 1250, Alfonso X, Lapidario, f. 107v:
        […] ſera aguardado del danno delos moſquitos. ⁊ de todas maneras de moſcas que seã pozonadas o mordedores. / Et eſto es mas deſcendiẽdo ſobreſta piedra la ũtud de fig̃a de moſq̃to, o de alguna deſtas otras moſcas que dixiemos.
        [[…] será aguardado del danno de los mosquitos e de todas maneras de moscas que sean pozonadas o mordedores. E esto es mas descendiendo sobr'esta piedra la virtud de figura de mosquito, o de alguna d'estas 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.

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    • Spanish: mosquito (see there for further descendants)

    Portuguese

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    Etymology

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      Borrowed from Spanish mosquito, from Old Spanish mosquito, from mosca + -ito. By surface analysis, mosca +‎ -ito. Piecewise doublet of mosquete.

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      • Rhymes: -itu
      • Hyphenation: mos‧qui‧to

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      mosquito m (plural mosquitos, diminutive mosquitinho or mosquitito or mosquitozinho or mosquitozito, augmentative mosquitão)

      1. mosquito (flying insect)
        Synonyms: (North Brazil) carapanã, (Portugal) melga, (Northeast Brazil) muriçoca, (Brazil) pernilongo

      Synonyms

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      Regional synonyms of mosquito (“mosquito”)
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      Dialect groupDialectLocationWords
      BrazilianSertanejoCampo Grandemosquito, pernilongo
      Cuiabámosquito, muriçoca, pernilongo
      Goiâniamuriçoca, pernilongo
      AmazofoniaBelémcarapanã
      Boa Vistacarapanã, mosquito, muriçoca, pernilongo
      Rio Brancocarapanã, pernilongo
      Macapácarapanã, muriçoca, pernilongo
      Manauscarapanã, mosquito, muriçoca, pernilongo
      Serra AmazônicaPorto Velhocarapanã, mosquito, muriçoca, pernilongo
      BaianoSalvadormosquito, muriçoca, pernilongo
      North CoastSão Luísmosquito, muriçoca, pernilongo, praga
      Teresinamuriçoca, pernilongo
      Fortalezamosquito, muriçoca, pernilongo
      Brazilian NortheasternAracajumosquito, muriçoca, pernilongo
      João Pessoamosquito, muriçoca, pernilongo
      Maceiómosquito, muriçoca, pernilongo
      Natalmosquito, muriçoca, pernilongo
      RecifenseRecifemosquito, muriçoca, pernilongo
      Brazilian SouthernCuritibamosquito, pernilongo
      FlorianopolitanFlorianópolispernilongo
      GaúchoPorto Alegremosquito, pernilongo
      CariocaRio de Janeiromosquito, pernilongo
      FluminenseVitóriamosquito, muriçoca, pernilongo
      MineiroBelo Horizontepernilongo
      PaulistanoSão Paulomosquito, pernilongo
      EuropeanEstremenhanLisbonmelga, mosquito
      AzoreanAltaresmosquito
      Calhetamosquito, melga
      Carapachomosquito
      Castelo Brancomosquito
      Cedrosmosquito
      Fajãzinhamosquito
      Fontinhasmosquito
      Mosteirosmosquito
      Nordestemosquito
      Ponta Garçamosquito
      Ponta Ruivamosquito
      Rabo de Peixemosquito
      Rosaismosquito
      Santo Espíritomosquito
      São Roque do Picomosquito-bravo
      Terrasmosquito, mosquito-bravo
      Vila do Corvomosquito
      This table shows various regional forms in the Portuguese language.

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      Spanish

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      Etymology

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        Inherited from Old Spanish mosquito, from mosca + -ito.

        Cognate with Sicilian muschitta (“midge”), Italian moschetto. Doublet of mosquete (“musket”)

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        mosquito m (plural mosquitos)

        1. mosquito
          Synonyms: zancudo, (Mexico) moyote, cénzalo
        2. gnat
        3. (Mexico, colloquial) trimmer
        4. (literal) diminutive of mosco (“small fly”)

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