From  which language did the word "mosquito" originate?
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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, and the Germans used the name "Stechmucken" or "Schnacke." They called mosquitoes a variety of names in Scandanavian countries including "myg" and "myyga" while the Greeks called them "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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The mosquito is a member of the family Culicidae which  contains about 3500 species in three subfamilies: Anophelinae (3 genera), the Culicinae (9 genera and >80% of all the species) and the Toxorhynchitinae (1 genus). The genera include Anopheles, Culex, Psorophora, Ochlerotatus, Aedes, Sabethes, Wyeomyia, Culiseta, and Haemagoggus.
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It's bull. It comes from English's proto-Germanic root language, and many Northern European languages have similar words.
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Our word comes from:\nMiddle English - knif\nOld English - cnf\nOld Norse - knfr\n\nWhilst the French now use the word 'couteau', not long ago the word 'canife' was more common. Not surprising perhaps when the part of modern France called Normandie was the place of the North-men (Norse).
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Yeah there is a lot of debate on where it originally came from. This is all I could really find:\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aids#Origin_of_HIV\n\n(I can't believe that person copy and pasted the whole article from Wikipedia!! lol)
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I don't know about Latin origins, but I do know of Greek origins:\n\na - bios\nb - life\nc - graphein\nd - write
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Mosquitoes seem to prefer Asians.  I don't know why.
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Mosquito: 1-2 mg\nHouse Fly: 20 - 40 mg\n\nThese are extrapolated from the references below. You should get more confirmation from other sources.
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Latin is the ancestor of all those languages you mentioned, as well as Portuguese.  Publius Vergilius Maro, or Vergil (original Latin spelling) was a poet - he was born in 70 BC, and died in 19 BC before he finished the Aeneid.  The name probably did not originate with him, but he certainly made it famous.
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The Romans played a game called "harpastum" which was probably the origin of modern soccer.\nSource-SAMM
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Well, if you have different parts of the world, the languages of that area will affect what it is called, even in one language like English. English is easily adaptable and pretty much the most flexible in terms of adopting words from other languages. \n\nFrom the first source we have a very good, detailed description of where the word typhoon comes from:\n"Word History: The history of typhoon presents a perfect example of the long journey that many words made in coming to English. It traveled from Greece to Arabia to India, and also arose independently in China, before assuming its current form in our language. The Greek word tuphn, used both as the name of the father of the winds and a common noun meaning “whirlwind, typhoon,” was borrowed into Arabic during the Middle Ages, when Arabic learning both preserved and expanded the classical heritage and passed it on to Europe and other parts of the world. fn, the Arabic version of the Greek word, passed into languages spoken in India, where Arabic-speaking Muslim invaders had settled in the 11th century. Thus the descendant of the Arabic word, passing into English (first recorded in 1588) through an Indian language and appearing in English in forms such as touffon and tufan, originally referred specifically to a severe storm in India. The modern form of typhoon was influenced by a borrowing from the Cantonese variety of Chinese, namely the word taaîfung, and respelled to make it look more like Greek. Taaîfung, meaning literally “great wind,” was coincidentally similar to the Arabic borrowing and is first recorded in English guise as tuffoon in 1699. The various forms coalesced and finally became typhoon, a spelling that first appeared in 1819 in Shelley's Prometheus Unbound."\n\nFrom the second source, the origins of cyclone and hurricane:\n"The word hurricane is derived from the name of a native Caribbean Amerindian storm god, Huracan, via Spanish huracán.\nThe word cyclone is from the Greek 'κύκλος', meaning 'circle.' An Egyptian word Cykline meaning to 'to spin' has been cited as a possible origin."
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One latin and four greek origins here:\n\nFluorine is from the latin "fluere", meaning "to flow"\nChlorine is from the greek "chloros", meaning "pale green"\nBromine is from the greek "bromos", meaning "stench"\nIodine is from the greek "iodes", meaning "violet"\nAstatine is from the greek "astatos", meaning "unstable"
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Somali is the only language I could find with such a word, and it means 'Flower' :-)
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Actually true. Back in 4500 BC, before the english language was in use, the name "JAPAN" meant Shang-yo-ching-chi-yang. When translated to modern english, 6500 years later, it does actually mean JUMPING AND PUMPING AT NIGHT!
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Sanskrit is the name of language originated from India..
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I believe the name "Earth" is derived from Latin. The ancient Greeks however considered earth a goddess naming her Ge or Gaeia in English translation. They still use the name today for earth in their language.
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The English language consists of many words which have germanic/celtic origins, others have latin ones. You find negation prefixes like "dis" or "im" on those words which originally come from latin. There are of course exceptions (unpleasant for example). Sometimes both possibilities exist but mean something slightly different. Compare "immortal" with "undead". But there are synonyms. For your examples:\n\nunhappy: disconsolate\ndishonest: untrustworthy\n\nIt is quite interesting to consult a thesaurus and find the equivalents with germanic/celtic origin to the latin ones and vice versa.