cimex

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English

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Wikispecies

Cimex lectularius

Etymology

From the genus name Cimex, from Latin cīmex (bug). Doublet of chinch.

Noun

cimex (plural cimices)

  1. Any member of the genus Cimex, especially the bedbug.
    • 1855, Henry G Dalton, The history of British Guiana:
      Some of these cimices are extremely pretty, but if handled emit their disagreeable perfume. I have met with about a dozen species of these bugs.
    • 1967, Merritt E Lawlis, Elizabethan prose fiction:
      There was a poor fellow during my remainder there that, for a new trick he had invented of killing cimices and scorpions, had his mountebank banner hung up...

Latin

Etymology

Unknown origin.

Pronunciation

Noun

cīmex m (genitive cīmicis); third declension

  1. bug
  2. bedbug

Declension

Third-declension noun.

singular plural
nominative cīmex cīmicēs
genitive cīmicis cīmicum
dative cīmicī cīmicibus
accusative cīmicem cīmicēs
ablative cīmice cīmicibus
vocative cīmex cīmicēs

Descendants

References

  • cimex”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • cimex”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • cimex in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.