москит

Several steps omitting from Latin musca + -ittus.

• IPA^(key): [mɐˈskʲit]

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моски́т • (moskít) m anim (genitive моски́та, nominative plural моски́ты, genitive plural моски́тов, relational adjective моски́тный)

1. sandfly, phlebotomine (any fly of the subfamily Phlebotominae)
2. (rare) mosquito, gnat

   Synonym: кома́р (komár)

3. P-270 Moskit (Soviet supersonic ramjet powered anti-ship cruise missile)

Native

• мо́шка f anim (móška)
• му́ха f anim (múxa)

Borrowed

Derived from Latin musca:

• мушке́т m (muškét)

• → Yiddish: מאָסקיט (moskit)

• Shansky, N. M., Zhuravlyov, A. F., editors (2007), “москит”, in Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), number 10 (М), Moscow: Moscow University Press, →ISBN, page 323
• Šanskij, N. M. (2004) “москит”, in Školʹnyj etimologičeskij slovarʹ russkovo jazyka [School Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Drofa

• Dal, Vladimir (1880–1882) “москит”, in Толковый Словарь живаго великорускаго языка [Explanatory Dictionary of the Living Great Russian Language] (in Russian), 2nd edition, Publication of the bookseller-typographer Wolf, M. O.