cimex
See also: Cimex
English edit
Etymology edit
From the genus name Cimex, from Latin cīmex (“bug”). Doublet of chinch.
Noun edit
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...
Latin edit
Etymology edit
Unknown origin.
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈkiː.meks/, [ˈkiːmɛks̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈt͡ʃi.meks/, [ˈt͡ʃiːmeks]
Noun edit
cīmex m (genitive cīmicis); third declension
Declension edit
Third-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | cīmex | cīmicēs |
Genitive | cīmicis | cīmicum |
Dative | cīmicī | cīmicibus |
Accusative | cīmicem | cīmicēs |
Ablative | cīmice | cīmicibus |
Vocative | cīmex | cīmicēs |
Descendants edit
- Balkan Romance:
- Romanian: cince
- Dalmatian:
- Italo-Romance:
- Padanian:
- Gallo-Romance:
- Ibero-Romance: f
- Insular Romance:
- Sardinian: chìmighe
- Borrowings:
- → Albanian: qimqë
- → Basque: zimitz
- → English: cimex
- → Esperanto: cimo
- → Translingual: Cimex
References edit
- “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.