mofeta

• IPA^(key): (Central) [muˈfɛ.tə]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [moˈfə.tə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencian) [moˈfe.ta]

Borrowed from Italian mofetta (“skunk”), from mofeta (“mofetta”).

mofeta f (plural mofetes)

1. skunk

Borrowed from Italian mofeta (“mofetta”).

mofeta f (plural mofetes)

1. mofetta

From mofar-se (“to mock”).

mofeta m or f by sense (plural mofetes)

1. a person who likes to make fun of other people

• mofa

• “mofeta” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

mofeta f (plural mofete)

1. mofetta

• mofetico

Borrowed from Italian mofeta (“pestilential exhalation”) and moffetta (“skunk”), from Latin mephitis (“sulphurous exhalation”), from which English mephitic descended.

• IPA^(key): /moˈfeta/ [moˈfe.t̪a]
• Rhymes: -eta
• Syllabification: mo‧fe‧ta

mofeta f (plural mofetas)

1. skunk

   Synonyms: chingue, zorrillo, zorrino

• “mofeta”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014