mosca

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From Latin musca .

• IPA ^(key): /ˈmoska/
• Rhymes: -oska
• Syllabification: mos‧ca

mosca f (plural moscas )

1. fly (insect)

• Bal Palazios, Santiago (2002), "mosca", in Dizionario breu de a luenga aragonesa, Zaragoza, →ISBN

From Latin musca .

• IPA ^(key): /ˈmoska/ [ˈmos.ka]
• Rhymes: -oska
• Syllabification: mos‧ca

mosca f (plural mosques )

1. fly (insect)

• García Arias, Xosé Lluis (2002–2004), "mosca ", in Diccionario general de la lengua asturiana [General Dictionary of the Asturian Language] (overall work in Spanish), Editorial Prensa Asturiana, →ISBN
• "mosca ", in Diccionariu de la llingua asturiana [Dictionary of the Asturian Language] (in Asturian), 1st edition, Academy of the Asturian Language [Asturian: Academia de la Llingua Asturiana], 2000, →ISBN

Inherited from Old Catalan mosca , from Latin musca , from Proto-Indo-European *mus- .

• IPA ^(key): (Northern ) [ˈmus.kə]
• IPA ^(key): (Balearic , Central ) [ˈmos.kə]
• IPA ^(key): (Valencia , Northwestern ) [ˈmos.ka]
• Audio (Valencia ): (file)

mosca f (plural mosques )

1. fly (insect)

• "mosca", in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• "mosca", in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2026
• "mosca" in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• Alcover, Antoni Maria; Moll, Francesc de Borja (1963), "mosca", in Diccionari català-valencià-balear (in Catalan)

From Old Galician-Portuguese mosca , from Latin musca .

• IPA ^(key): /ˈmoska/
• Rhymes: -oska
• Syllabification: mos‧ca

mosca f (plural moscas )

1. fly (insect)

• Valeš, Miroslav (2021), Diccionariu de A Fala: lagarteiru, mañegu, valverdeñu (web)‎^[1] , 2nd edition, Minde, Portugal: CIDLeS, published 2022, →ISBN

From Old Galician-Portuguese mosca , from Latin musca .

• IPA ^(key): /ˈmoska/ [ˈmos̺.kɐ]
• Rhymes: -oska
• Hyphenation: mos‧ca

mosca f (plural moscas )

1. fly (insect)
2. (television ) digital on-screen graphic

• "mosca", in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2026
• "mosca", in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (in Galician), 2014–2026
• Antón Santamarina, editor (2006–2013), "mosca", in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Santamarina, Ernesto X. González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), "mosca", in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), "mosca", in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

mosca

1. inflection of moscar :
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

From Latin musca , from Proto-Indo-European *mus- . Compare Spanish mosca .

• IPA ^(key): /ˈmos.ka/
• Audio: (file)
• Rhymes: -oska
• Hyphenation: mó‧sca

mosca f (plural mosche , diminutive moschétta or moschìna or moschìno  m or moschettìna , augmentative (uncommon) moscóna , pejorative moscàccia )

1. fly (insect)
   • 13^th century, "De’ Funghi [Of Mushrooms]", in Trattato dell'agricoltura [Treatise On Agriculture]‎^[2] , 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.

   • 1300s–1310s, Dante Alighieri, "Canto XVII", in Inferno [Hell], lines 49–51; republished as Giorgio Petrocchi, editor, La Commedia secondo l'antica vulgata [The Commedia according to the ancient vulgate], 2^nd revised edition, Florence: publ. Le Lettere, 1994:

     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]‎^[3] , 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

2. (by extension, figurative ):
   1. (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^[4] , 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.

   2. (historical , cosmetics ) beauty spot
   3. soul patch (narrow beard)
   4. (in the plural ) Black spots on a horse's coat.
   5. (bartending slang ) a roasted coffee bean sometimes served with sambuca
3. (foundry) a small ball of plastic material used to verify the thickness of the various parts of a mold
4. (nautical , historical ) aviso, advice boat

   Synonym: avviso

mosca m (invariable )

1. (martial arts ) ellipsis of peso mosca ("a flyweight-class fighter ").

• "mosca", in Vocabolario Treccani on line (in Italian), Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana, 2026

From Latin musca .

• IPA ^(key): /ˈmoska/, [ˈmos.ka]

mosca f (plural moscas )

1. fly (insect)

• "mosca", in Diccionario Castellano-Leonés / Leonés-Castellano [Spanish-Leonese / Leonese-Spanish Dictionary] (in Spanish), La Asociación L'Alderique, 2012–2026

From Latin musca .

• (Naples) IPA ^(key): [ˈmoʃk]
• Hyphenation: mo‧sca

mosca f (plural mosce )

1. fly (insect)

• Giacco, Giuseppe (2003), "mosca", in Schedario Napoletano
• AIS: Sprach- und Sachatlas Italiens und der Südschweiz [Linguistic and Ethnographic Atlas of Italy and Southern Switzerland] – map 477: "la mosca" – on navigais-web.pd.istc.cnr.it

• moscha

From Old Occitan mosca , from Latin musca .

• IPA ^(key): [ˈmus.kɔ]
• (Niçard ) IPA ^(key): [ˈmus.ka]
• Audio (Béarn ): (file)

mosca f (plural moscas )

1. fly (insect)

Inherited from Latin musca .

• IPA ^(key): /ˈmoska/
• Rhymes: -oska
• Hyphenation: mos‧ca

mosca f (plural moscas )

1. fly (any insect of the order Diptera )

• Fala: mosca
• Galician: mosca
• Portuguese: mosca

• Ferreiro, Manuel (2014–2026), "mosca", in Universo Cantigas: edición crítica da poesía medieval galego-portuguesa [Universo Cantigas: critical edition of Galician-Portuguese medieval poetry] (in Galician), A Coruña: University of A Coruña, →ISSN
• Seoane, Ernesto Xosé González; Granja, María Álvarez de la; Agrelo, Ana Isabel Boullón (2006–2022), "mosca", in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval [Dictionary of dictionaries of Medieval Galician] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Barreiro, Xavier Varela; Guinovart, Xavier Gómez (2006–2018), "mosca", in Corpus Xelmírez: corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval [Corpus Xelmírez: linguistic corpus of Medieval Galicia] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega

From Latin muscam , accusative of musca .

• IPA ^(key): /ˈmoska/

mosca f (plural moscas )

1. fly (any insect of the order Diptera )
   • 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.

• mosquito ("mosquito")

• Ladino: moshka (Latin spelling), מושקה (Hebrew spelling)
• Spanish: mosca

From Old Galician-Portuguese mosca , from Latin musca , from Proto-Indo-European *mus- .

• Rhymes: (Brazil) -oskɐ, (Portugal) -oʃkɐ
• Hyphenation: mos‧ca

mosca f (plural moscas )

1. fly (various insects in the order Diptera )
2. soul patch (narrow beard)
3. bullseye (centre of a target)
4. (colloquial ) an annoying person

• Unlike English fly , which can be any dipterid, mosca has a narrower sense and usually refers to the insects in the suborder Brachycera , while the ones in Nematocera are known as mosquitos .

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

• Rhymes: -ɔskɐ
• Hyphenation: mos‧ca

mosca

1. inflection of moscar :
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

• "mosca", in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• "mosca", in Dicio – Dicionário Online de Português (in Portuguese), São Paulo: 7Graus, 2009–2026
• "mosca", in Dicionário inFormal (in Portuguese), 2006–2026
• "mosca", in Dicionário Infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2026
• "mosca", in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

• IPA ^(key): /ˈmoska/ [ˈmos.ka]
• Audio (Colombia ): (file)
• Rhymes: -oska
• Syllabification: mos‧ca

Inherited from Old Spanish mosca , from Latin musca , from Proto-Indo-European *mus- . Compare English midge .

mosca f (plural moscas )

1. fly (any insect of the order Diptera )
2. (boxing ) fly (boxing class)
3. (television ) digital on-screen graphic

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

mosca

1. inflection of moscar :
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

• "mosca", in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025
• "mosca", in Diccionario de americanismos [Dictionary of Americanisms] (in Spanish), Association of Academies of the Spanish Language [Spanish: Asociación de Academias de la Lengua Española ], 2010
• DiPerú | Diccionario de peruanismos en línea

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