mosca – Italian noun declension

Italian noun forms of mosca

Noun: mosca
Gender: f m Hyphenation: mó‧sca
Singular mmoschìno; mosca
Singular fmosca
Plural fmosche

Sample Sentences

  • […] 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.) [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:]
  • 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) [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], 2ⁿᵈ revised edition, Florence: publ. Le Lettere, 1994:]
  • 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) [1668, Francesco Redi, Esperienze intorno alla generazione degl’insetti [Experiences About the Generation of Insects], Florence, page 137:]
  • 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.) [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:]
  • 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.) [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:]

Nouns inflected like mosca

mosca,

Etymology

From Latin musca, from Proto-Indo-European *mus-. Compare Spanish mosca. See: Latin Nouns 'musca', Spanish Nouns 'mosca'.

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