moustique

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”).

• IPA^(key): /mus.tik/

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moustique m (plural moustiques)

1. mosquito
2. gnat

• Seychellois Creole: moustik

• “moustique”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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moustique f (plural moustiques)

1. (Jersey) mosquito