mosca
Aragonese
Etymology
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Noun
mosca f (plural moscas)
- fly (insect)
References
- Bal Palazios, Santiago (2002), “mosca”, in Dizionario breu de a luenga aragonesa, Zaragoza, →ISBN
Asturian
Etymology
From Latin musca.
Noun
mosca f (plural mosques)
- fly (insect)
Catalan
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Etymology
From Old Catalan mosca, from Latin musca, from a Proto-Indo-European root *mus-, *mu-, *mew-.
Pronunciation
- (Balearic, Central) IPA(key): /ˈmos.kə/
- (Valencian) IPA(key): /ˈmos.ka/
Audio (Valencian) (file)
Noun
mosca f (plural mosques)
- fly (insect)
Related terms
- mosca blanca
- mosca del vinagre
- moscallejar
- moscalló
- moscam
- mosca negra
- moscard
- moscarda
- mosca verda
- mosca vironera
- mosquejar
- mosquer
- mosquera
- mosquit
Further reading
- “mosca” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “mosca”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2023
- “mosca” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “mosca” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
Galician
Etymology
From Old Galician and Old Portuguese mosca, from Latin musca.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈmoska̝/
Noun
mosca f (plural moscas)
- fly (insect)
- (television) digital on-screen graphic
Derived terms
- mosca beira
- mosca caíña
- mosca caira
- moscar
- moscardo
- Moscosas
- Moscoso
- mosquear
- mosqueira
- mosqueiro
- Mosqueiro
- Mosqueiros
- mosquitar
- mosquito
- Pena Moscosa
References
- “mosca” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
- “mosca” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
- “mosca” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
- “mosca” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
- “mosca” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.
Italian
Etymology
From Latin musca, from a Proto-Indo-European root *mus-, *mu-, *mew-. Compare Spanish mosca.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈmo.ska/
Audio (file) - Rhymes: -oska
- Hyphenation: mó‧sca
Noun
mosca f (plural mosche, diminutive moschétta or moschìna or moschìno m or moschettìna, augmentative (uncommon) moscóna, pejorative moscàccia)
- fly (insect)
- 13th century, “De’ Funghi [Of Mushrooms]”, in Trattato dell'agricoltura [Treatise On Agriculture], translation of Opus ruralium commodorum libri XII by Pietro De' Crescenzi, published 1605, page 326:
- […] quello è mortale, che tosto uccide, e chiamasi il fungo delle mosche, imperocchè, polverizzato in latte, uccide le mosche.
- That one is deadly, which kills at once, and it is called the "mushroom of the flies", because, if ground in milk, it kills flies.
- early 14th century, Dante, “Canto XVII”, in Inferno, lines 49–51:
- non altrimenti fan di state i cani
or col ceffo or col piè, quando son morsi
o da pulci o da mosche o da tafani- Not unlike how dogs do during the summer, with the head or the leg, when they're bitten by fleas or flies or horseflies
- 1668, Francesco Redi, Esperienze intorno alla generazione degl’insetti [Experiences About the Generation of Insects], Florence, page 137:
- e pure io ho vedute le mosche partorir le loro uova ed i loro vermi nel timo, e da que’ vermi nascerne le mosche
- And yet, I've seen flies laying their eggs, and their larvae, amidst thyme, and flies being born from those larvae
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- (by extension, figurative):
- (fishing) fly (lure)
- 1833, Nuovo dizionario universale tecnologico o di arti e mestieri - Tomo Ⅷ [New universal technological dictionary, or of arts and crafts - Volume 8], Venice: Giuseppe Antonelli ed., Mosca, page 461:
- Nell’arte della pesca, diconsi mosche certi insetti fittizi fatti alla buona per servire d’esca ai pesci.
- In the art of fishing, flies are a kind of improvised fake insects, made to serve as a lure for fish.
- 1981, Carlo Cotta Ramusino, “Capitolo Ⅶ - Tecnica di lancio [Chapter 7 - Throwing technique]”, in Pesca a mosca: canne, lenze, mulinelli, setali, mosche, lanci da pesca e da gara, page 195:
- Premetto che se volete imparare a lanciare, non dovete pretendere di andare vicino all’acqua, montare la canna, attaccare la mosca e mettervi a pescare.
- I have to preface that, if you wish to learn to throw [the line], you mustn't expect to just go near water, assemble the rod, attach the fly, and start fishing.
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- (historical, cosmetics) beauty spot
- soul patch (narrow beard)
- (in the plural) Black spots on a horse's coat.
- (bartending slang) a roasted coffee bean sometimes served with sambuca
- (fishing) fly (lure)
- (foundry) a small ball of plastic material used to verify the thickness of the various parts of a mold
- (nautical, historical) aviso, advice boat
- Synonym: avviso
Derived terms
- moscaio
- moscaiola
- moscerino
- moscone
- occhio di mosca
Noun
mosca m (invariable)
- (martial arts) Ellipsis of peso mosca.: a flyweight-class fighter.
Further reading
- mosca in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
Leonese
Etymology
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Noun
mosca f (plural moscas)
- fly (insect)
References
- AEDLL
Occitan
Etymology
From Old Occitan mosca, from Latin musca.
Pronunciation
Audio (file)
Noun
mosca f (plural moscas)
- fly (insect)
Old Spanish
Etymology
From Latin muscam, accusative of musca.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈmoska/
Noun
mosca f (plural moscas)
- fly
- c. 1250: Alfonso X, Lapidario, f. 31v.
- Et ſi tomaren cinco moſcas o ſiete ¬ les tollieren las cabeças ¬ las machucaren con eſta piedra. ¬ las puſieren ſobre la ferida dela bieſpa, ſana luego ¬ faz perder la dolor.
- And if the took five flies, or seven, and they took their heads and crushed them with this stone, and they put them on a wasp sting, it would then heal it and alleviate the pain.
- Et ſi tomaren cinco moſcas o ſiete ¬ les tollieren las cabeças ¬ las machucaren con eſta piedra. ¬ las puſieren ſobre la ferida dela bieſpa, ſana luego ¬ faz perder la dolor.
- c. 1250: Alfonso X, Lapidario, f. 31v.
Related terms
- mosquito (“mosquito”)
Descendants
- Ladino: moshka (Latin spelling), מושקה (Hebrew spelling)
- Spanish: mosca
Portuguese
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Etymology
From Old Portuguese mosca, from Latin musca, from a Proto-Indo-European root *mus-, *mu-, *mew-.
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈmos.kɐ/
- (Rio de Janeiro) IPA(key): /ˈmoʃ.kɐ/
- (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈmos.ka/
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /ˈmoʃ.kɐ/
- Hyphenation: mos‧ca
Noun
mosca f (plural moscas)
- fly (insect)
- soul patch (narrow beard)
Related terms
- mosquito
Spanish
Etymology
From Old Spanish mosca, from Latin musca, from a Proto-Indo-European root *mus-, *mu-, *mew-.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈmoska/ [ˈmos.ka]
Audio (Colombia) (file) - Rhymes: -oska
- Syllabification: mos‧ca
Noun
mosca f (plural moscas)
- fly (any insect of the order Diptera)
- (boxing) fly (boxing class)
- (television) digital on-screen graphic
Derived terms
- atrapamoscas
- caer como moscas
- matamoscas
- mosca muerta
- moscarda
- moscardón
- mosco
- mosquito
- papamoscas
- por si las moscas
- publimosca
- qué mosca te ha picado
Related terms
- amoscar
Verb
mosca
- inflection of moscar:
- third-person singular present indicative
- second-person singular imperative
Further reading
- “mosca”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014