pulex

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Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *plúsis (“flea”), with metathesis plus → pusl → pūl, with a suffix -ex, -icis also found in cīmex (“bug”) and culex (“gnat”). Cognates include Ancient Greek ψύλλα (psúlla), Sanskrit प्लुषि (plúṣi), Old Armenian լու (lu) and Old English flēah, flēa (English flea).

Pronunciation

Noun

pūlex m (genitive pūlicis); third declension

  1. flea

Declension

Third-declension noun.

singular plural
nominative pūlex pūlicēs
genitive pūlicis pūlicum
dative pūlicī pūlicibus
accusative pūlicem pūlicēs
ablative pūlice pūlicibus
vocative pūlex pūlicēs

Derived terms

Descendants

References

  • “pulex”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • pulex in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • “pulex”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray
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