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Vinony

mosquito

noun

  1. small biting insect
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Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /mɒˈskiː.təʊ/ / /məsˈki.toʊ/ / /məsˈkitə/

name

  1. A settlement in Newfoundland and Labrador.

noun

  1. Dated form of Miskito.

verb

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

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