Translation
fly (insect)
Word origin
From Latin musca ('fly'). Spanish mosca kept the word intact, its diminutive mosquito gave English the little one, and Italian moschetto, a crossbow bolt that buzzed, ended up as musket.
- Origin
- Latin
- Root
- musca
- English cognates
- mosquito, musket, midge
Examples
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A fly flew into my soup.
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The flies bother me during the very hot days.
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He killed the fly with a newspaper.
is the housefly, and it does not stretch to cover every small flying thing: a mosquito is moskito, a bee is . Do not confuse it with , the mouse, which differs by one letter and one dot. has the sh sound of shoe; does not. In an Esperanto crowd that pair is the classic slip.
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