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The Name “Mosquito”
The Spanish called
the mosquitoes “musketas,” and the native Hispanic Americans
called them “zancudos.” “Mosquito” is a Spanish or Portuguese
word meaning “little fly” while “zancudos,” a Spanish word,
means “long-legged.” The use of the word “mosquito” is
apparently of North American origin and dates back to about
1583. In Europe, mosquitoes were called “gnats” by the English,
“Les moucherons” or “Les cousins” by French writers, while the
Germans used the name “Stechmucken” or Schnacke.|” In
Scandinavian countries mosquitoes were called by a variety of
names including “myg” and “myyga” and the Greeks called the “konopus.”
In 300 B.C., Aristotle referred to mosquitoes as “empis” in his
“Historia Animalium” where he documented their life cycle and
metamorphic abilities. Modern writers used the name Culex and it
is retained today as the name of a mosquito genus. What is the
correct plural form of the word mosquito? In Spanish it would be
“mosquitos,” but in English “mosquitoes” (with the”e”) is
correct.
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