Translingual

Cimex lectularius

Proper noun

Cimex m

1. A taxonomic genus within the family Cimicidae.

Hypernyms

• (genus): Eukaryota - superkingdom; Animalia - kingdom; Bilateria - subkingdom; Protostomia - infrakingdom; Ecdysozoa - superphylum; Arthropoda - phylum; Hexapoda - subphylum; Insecta - class; Pterygota - subclass; Neoptera - infraclass; Condylognatha - superorder; Hemiptera - order; Heteroptera - suborder; Cimicomorpha - infraorder; Cimicoidea - superfamily; Cimicidae - family

Hyponyms

• (genus): Cimex lectularius - type species; Cimex columbarius, Cimex dissimilis, Cimex emarginatus, Cimex pipistrelli - species

Derived terms

• Afrocimex
• Paracimex
• Propicimex
• Crassicimex
• Leptocimex
• Stricticimex
• Caminicimex
• Cimexopsis
• Hesperocimex
• Psitticimex
• Latrocimex
• Bucimex
• Primicimex

English

Wikispecies

Cimex lectularius

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.

Noun

cīmex m ‎(genitive cīmicis); third declension

1. bug
2. bedbug

Declension

Third declension.

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
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “cimex”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.