mosquit

Borrowed from Spanish mosquito (“small fly”), from mosca (“fly”), + diminutive suffix -ito, from Latin musca.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [musˈkit]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [mosˈkit]

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• Rhymes: -it

mosquit m (plural mosquits)

1. mosquito

   Synonyms: moscard, rantell, randella, cuïc, marfull

2. gnat

• “mosquit”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007