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moustique.

mosquito

9 characters3 syllables approx.Français language

Meaning & usage

noun/mus.tik/
  1. mosquito

    masculine
  2. gnat

    masculine
  3. pest

    France · masculine · slang
Where this word comes from

Borrowed from Spanish mosquito, diminutive of mosca, from Latin musca, whence also the French doublet mouche (“a fly”). The metathesis of /k/ and /t/ might have been due to influence of tique (“a tick”).

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