• n. 蚊子

來自西班牙語mosca,蚊子，-ito,小詞后綴，來自拉丁語musca,蚊子，來自PIE*mu,蚊子，擬聲詞，模仿蚊子嗡嗡的聲音，詞源同moth,midge.

mosquito

mosquito: [16] Mosquito comes ultimately from the Latin word for ‘fly’, musca (this went back to an Indo-European base *mu-, probably imitative of the sound of humming, which also produced English midge [OE], and hence its derivative midget [19] – originally a ‘tiny sand-fly’). Musca became Spanish mosca, whose diminutive form reached English as mosquito – etymologically a ‘small fly’. (The Italian descendant of musca, incidentally, is also mosca, and its diminutive, moschetto, was applied with black humour to the ‘bolt of a crossbow’. From it English gets musket [16].)
=> midge, midget, musket

mosquito (n.)

1580s, from Spanish mosquito "little gnat," diminutive of mosca "fly," from Latin musca "fly," from PIE root *mu- "gnat, fly," imitative of insect buzzing (compare Sanskrit maksa-, Greek myia, Old English mycg, Modern English midge, Old Church Slavonic mucha), perhaps imitative of the sound of humming insects.

1. I threw aside my mosquito net and jumped out of bed.

我把蚊帳甩到一邊，跳下床來。

來自柯林斯例句

2. Avoiding mosquito bites is easier said than done.

防蚊叮咬好說難做。

來自柯林斯例句

3. A mosquito had bitten her and her arm had swollen up.

蚊子叮了她,她的手臂腫起來了.

來自《簡明英漢詞典》

4. He started reading when he was knee - high to a mosquito.

他很小的時候就開始讀書.

來自《簡明英漢詞典》

5. I slapped at the mosquito but missed.

我打蚊子,但沒打中.

來自《簡明英漢詞典》