culex

Borrowed from Latin culex (“gnat”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈkjuː.lɛks/

culex (plural culices)

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

• culicidal

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

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈku.leks/, [ˈkʊɫ̪ɛks̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈku.leks/, [ˈkuːleks]

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.

Third-declension noun.

• culicīnus

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

• “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

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

Compare Highland Puebla Nahuatl colex.

culex

1. Cabbage.

• 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