cimex
See also: Cimex
English
Wikispecies
Cimex lectularius
Etymology
From the genus name Cimex, from Latin cīmex (“bug”). Doublet of chinch.
Noun
cimex (plural cimices)
- 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...
- 1855, Henry G Dalton, The history of British Guiana
Latin
Etymology
Unknown origin.
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈkiː.meks/, [ˈkiː.mɛks]
Noun
cīmex m (genitive cīmicis); third declension
- bug
- bedbug
Declension
Third declension.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | cīmex | cīmicēs |
| Genitive | cīmicis | cīmicum |
| Dative | cīmicī | cīmicibus |
| Accusative | cīmicem | cīmicēs |
| Ablative | cīmice | cīmicibus |
| Vocative | cīmex | cīmicēs |
Descendants
- Albanian: qimqë
- Catalan: xinxa
- Dalmatian: cinko
- English: cimex
- Italian: cimice
- Mozarabic: جّيمْجِّ
- Old Catalan: címeu
- Portuguese: chisme
- Romanian: cince
- Sardinian: chímighe
- Spanish: chinche, chisme
- Translingual: Cimex
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
- cimex in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette