Polyglot Dictionary

mosquito

/mosˈkitu/

o noun A2

o (masc.) a (fem.)

Underline = a spelling pattern that usually signals that gender.

N Register Neutral Era Current Frequency Core Domain General Tone Neutral

Forms

plural
os mosquitos

Meaning

  1. mosquito

    • O mosquito picou.

      The mosquito bit.

N Category Thing Concreteness Concrete Animacy Animate Countability Countable Scope Individual

Similar words

pernilongo

pernilongo is more colloquial or regional, a specific larger mosquito type in some Brazilian regions; mosquito is the standard word.

Similar in other languages

Spanish

mosquito

mosquito is the Spanish word for the same thing — both mean "mosquito."

French

moustique

moustique is the French word for the same thing — both mean "mosquito."

Practice

1 What does mosquito mean?

2 Fill the gap: O ___ picou.

3 Which fingerprint chart matches mosquito?

noun

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