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English

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Latin culex (gnat).

Pronunciation

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Noun

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culex (plural culices)

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

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Latin

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Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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Noun

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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

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Third-declension noun.

singular plural
nominative culex culicēs
genitive culicis culicum
dative culicī culicibus
accusative culicem culicēs
ablative culice culicibus
vocative culex culicēs

Derived terms

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Descendants

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

References

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  • 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

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Etymology

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

Compare Highland Puebla Nahuatl colex.

Noun

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culex

  1. Cabbage.

References

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  • 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