Meaning
gnat, fruit fly
- a tiny dipteran fly or gnat
- informally, a tiny or insignificant person or small child
In a sentence
Mi è entrato un moscerino nell'occhio mentre andavo in bicicletta.
A gnat got in my eye while I was riding my bicycle.
D'estate la cucina si riempie facilmente di moscerini della frutta.
In summer, the kitchen easily fills with fruit flies.
C'era una nuvola di moscerini vicino allo stagno.
There was a cloud of gnats near the pond.
Word forms (2)
| Word | Word forms |
|---|---|
| moscerino | masculine · singular |
| moscerini | masculine · plural |
Usage notes
- Historically an altered form of 'mosca' with suffixes -e- and -ino.
- Very common in the idiom 'moscerino della frutta' (fruit fly).