mofeta
Catalan
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): (Central) [muˈfɛ.tə]Category:Catalan terms with IPA pronunciation#MOFETA
- IPA(key): (Balearic) [moˈfə.tə]Category:Catalan terms with IPA pronunciation#MOFETA
- IPA(key): (Valencia) [moˈfe.ta]Category:Catalan terms with IPA pronunciation#MOFETA
Category:Catalan terms with audio pronunciation#MOFETAAudio (Barcelona): (file)
Etymology 1
Borrowed from ItalianCategory:Catalan terms borrowed from Italian#MOFETACategory:Catalan terms derived from Italian#MOFETA mofetta (“skunk”), from mofeta (“mofetta”).
Noun
mofeta f (plural mofetes)Category:Catalan lemmas#MOFETACategory:Catalan nouns#MOFETACategory:Catalan countable nouns#MOFETACategory:Catalan nouns with red links in their headword lines#MOFETACategory:Catalan entries with incorrect language header#MOFETACategory:Catalan feminine nouns#MOFETACategory:Pages with entries#MOFETACategory:Pages with 3 entries#MOFETA
Etymology 2
Borrowed from ItalianCategory:Catalan terms borrowed from Italian#MOFETACategory:Catalan terms derived from Italian#MOFETA mofeta (“mofetta”).
Noun
mofeta f (plural mofetes)Category:Catalan lemmas#MOFETACategory:Catalan nouns#MOFETACategory:Catalan countable nouns#MOFETACategory:Catalan nouns with red links in their headword lines#MOFETACategory:Catalan entries with incorrect language header#MOFETACategory:Catalan feminine nouns#MOFETACategory:Pages with entries#MOFETACategory:Pages with 3 entries#MOFETA
Etymology 3
From mofar-se (“to mock”).
Noun
mofeta m or f by sense (plural mofetes)Category:Catalan lemmas#MOFETACategory:Catalan nouns#MOFETACategory:Catalan countable nouns#MOFETACategory:Catalan masculine nouns ending in -a#MOFETACategory:Catalan nouns with red links in their headword lines#MOFETACategory:Catalan entries with incorrect language header#MOFETACategory:Catalan masculine and feminine nouns by sense#MOFETACategory:Catalan masculine nouns#MOFETACategory:Catalan feminine nouns#MOFETACategory:Catalan nouns with multiple genders#MOFETACategory:Pages with entries#MOFETACategory:Pages with 3 entries#MOFETA
- a person who likes to make fun of other people
Related terms
Further reading
- “mofeta”, 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
Italian
Noun
mofeta f (plural mofete)Category:Italian lemmas#MOFETACategory:Italian nouns#MOFETACategory:Italian countable nouns#MOFETACategory:Italian nouns with red links in their headword lines#MOFETACategory:Italian entries with incorrect language header#MOFETACategory:Italian feminine nouns#MOFETACategory:Pages with entries#MOFETACategory:Pages with 3 entries#MOFETA
Related terms
Spanish
Etymology
Borrowed from ItalianCategory:Spanish terms borrowed from Italian#MOFETACategory:Spanish terms derived from Italian#MOFETA mofeta (“pestilential exhalation”) and moffetta (“skunk”), from LatinCategory:Spanish terms derived from Latin#MOFETA mephitis (“sulphurous exhalation”), from which English mephitic descended.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /moˈfeta/ [moˈfe.t̪a]Category:Spanish 3-syllable words#MOFETACategory:Spanish terms with IPA pronunciation#MOFETA
- Rhymes: -etaCategory:Rhymes:Spanish/eta#MOFETACategory:Rhymes:Spanish/eta/3 syllables#MOFETA
- Syllabification: mo‧fe‧ta
Noun
mofeta f (plural mofetas)Category:Spanish lemmas#MOFETACategory:Spanish nouns#MOFETACategory:Spanish countable nouns#MOFETACategory:Spanish entries with incorrect language header#MOFETACategory:Spanish feminine nouns#MOFETACategory:Pages with entries#MOFETACategory:Pages with 3 entries#MOFETA
Further reading
- “mofeta”, 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
