cínife

Inherited from Old Spanish çinife (1326), from Late Latin cinifēs (“gnats”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈθinife/ [ˈθi.ni.fe] (Spain, Equatorial Guinea)
• IPA^(key): /ˈsinife/ [ˈsi.ni.fe] (Latin America, Philippines)
• Rhymes: -inife
• Syllabification: cí‧ni‧fe

cínife m (plural cínifes)

1. a mosquito

• “cínife”, 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
• “cínife”, in Diccionario histórico de la lengua española [Historical Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], launched 2013, →ISSN