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mosquito

/məskˈitoʊ/ 標準 頻度 4395位

要点カ

意味

  1. カ(蚊)

例文

語源

スペイン語で「小さな蝿」(mosca「蝿」+縮小語尾)「蚊」。

英語の原文(Wiktionary)

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.

出典: Wiktionary「mosquito」(CC BY-SA 4.0)

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