Translingual

Culex (Culex) pipiens

Proper noun

Culex m

1. A taxonomic genus within the family Culicidae – certain mosquitoes, including several that transmit important diseases.
2. A taxonomic subgenus within the genus Culex – certain mosquitoes.

Hypernyms

• (genus): Insecta - class, Diptera - order, Nematocera - suborder, Culicomorpha - infraorder, Culicoidea - superfamily, Culicidae - family, Culicinae - subfamily, Culicini - tribe

Hyponyms

• (genus): Culex (Acalleomyia), Culex (Acallyntrum), Culex (Aedinus), Culex (Afroculex), Culex (Allimanta), Culex (Anoedioporpa), Culex (Barraudius), Culex (Belkinomyia), Culex (Carrollia), Culex (Culex), Culex (Culiciomyia), Culex (Eumelanomyia), Culex (Kitzmilleria), Culex (Lasiosiphon), Culex (Lophoceraomyia), Culex (Maillotia), Culex (Melanoconion), Culex (Micraedes), Culex (Microculex), Culex (Neoculex), Culex (Oculeomyia), Culex (Phenacomyia), Culex (Phytotelmatomyia), Culex (Sirivanakarnius), Culex (Thaiomyia), Culex (Tinolestes) - subgenera
  • See also List of Culex species on Wikipedia.Wikipedia (Listed by subgenus.)
• (subgenus): C. (Culex) acharistus, C. (Culex) brumpti, C. (Culex) laticinctus, C. (Culex) mimeticus, C. (Culex) perexiguus, C. (Culex) pinaresis, C. (Culex) pipiens, C. (Culex) theileri, C. (Culex) torrentium, C. (Culex) tritaeniorhynchus (species)

English

A culex

Wikispecies

Noun

culex ‎(plural culices)

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

Latin

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈku.leks/, [ˈkʊ.ɫɛks]

Noun

culex m ‎(genitive culicis); third declension

1. gnat, midge
   • Erasmus, Adagia; 1.10.66

     Indus elephantus haud curat culicem.

     An Indian elephant does not worry about a gnat.

Inflection

Third declension.

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
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “culex”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• culex in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers