mite (arachnid) · moth, particularly one whose larva destroys something stored by humans
çekim: çoğul mites
köken: Inherited from Middle French, from Old French mitte (“kind of insect which gnaws on cloth or cheese”), from Middle Dutch mīte (“moth, mite”), ultimately from Proto-Germanic *mītǭ (“biting insect”, literally “cutter”), from *maitaną (“to cut”). Akin to Old English mīte (“mite, tiny insect”), Old High German mīza (“mite”), Danish mide (“mite”).
köken: Borrowed from Latin tinea (“noxious larva”), semantically influenced by taxonomic name Tinea, a genus of moths. Compare French teigne, Italian tigna (“ringworm”).