culex

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Etymology

Borrowed from Latin culex (“gnat”).

Pronunciation

Noun

culex (plural culices)

  1. Any of various mosquitoes of the genus Culex, some of which carry disease.

Derived terms

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *ḱuH-ló-, see also Old Armenian սլաք (slakʻ, “roasting spit”), Irish cuil (“mosquito”), and Welsh cylion (“gnats”).

Pronunciation

Noun

culex m (genitive culicis); third declension

  1. gnat, midge, mosquito
    • Erasmus, Adagia; 1.10.66
      Indus elephantus haud curat culicem.
      An Indian elephant does not worry about a gnat.

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative culex culicēs
Genitive culicis culicum
Dative culicī culicibus
Accusative culicem culicēs
Ablative culice culicibus
Vocative culex culicēs

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Esperanto: kulo
  • Italian: culice
  • Catalan: cúlex
  • French: cousin

References

  • “culex”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “culex”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • culex in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • “culex”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers

Tetelcingo Nahuatl

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish coles (“cabbages”), plural of col (“cabbage”), from Latin caulis.

Compare Highland Puebla Nahuatl colex.

Noun

culex

  1. Cabbage.

References

  • Brewer, Forrest, Brewer, Jean G. (1962) Vocabulario mexicano de Tetelcingo, Morelos, segunda impresión edition, México, D.F.: Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, published 1971, page 23
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