See culex on Wiktionary
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"form": "culex",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"nominative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "culicēs",
"links": [
[
"culicēs",
"culices#Latin"
]
],
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"nominative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "culicis",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"genitive",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "culicum",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"genitive",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "culicī",
"links": [
[
"culicī",
"culici#Latin"
]
],
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"dative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "culicibus",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"dative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "culicem",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"accusative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "culicēs",
"links": [
[
"culicēs",
"culices#Latin"
]
],
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"accusative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "culice",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"ablative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "culicibus",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"ablative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "culex",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"singular",
"vocative"
]
},
{
"form": "culicēs",
"links": [
[
"culicēs",
"culices#Latin"
]
],
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"plural",
"vocative"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "culex<3>",
"g": "m"
},
"expansion": "culex m (genitive culicis); third declension",
"name": "la-noun"
}
],
"inflection_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "culex<3>"
},
"name": "la-ndecl"
}
],
"lang": "Latin",
"lang_code": "la",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"alt_of": [
{
"word": "culix"
}
],
"glosses": [
"alternative form of culix"
],
"links": [
[
"culix",
"culix#Latin"
]
],
"tags": [
"alt-of",
"alternative",
"declension-3",
"masculine"
]
}
],
"word": "culex"
}
{
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "nhg",
"2": "es",
"3": "coles",
"t": "cabbages"
},
"expansion": "Spanish coles (“cabbages”)",
"name": "bor"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "nhg",
"2": "la",
"3": "caulis"
},
"expansion": "Latin caulis",
"name": "der"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "azz",
"2": "colex"
},
"expansion": "Highland Puebla Nahuatl colex",
"name": "cog"
}
],
"etymology_text": "Borrowed from Spanish coles (“cabbages”), plural of col (“cabbage”), from Latin caulis.\nCompare Highland Puebla Nahuatl colex.",
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "nhg",
"2": "noun"
},
"expansion": "culex",
"name": "head"
}
],
"lang": "Tetelcingo Nahuatl",
"lang_code": "nhg",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"Pages with 3 entries",
"Pages with entries",
"Tetelcingo Nahuatl entries with incorrect language header",
"Tetelcingo Nahuatl lemmas",
"Tetelcingo Nahuatl nouns",
"Tetelcingo Nahuatl terms borrowed from Spanish",
"Tetelcingo Nahuatl terms derived from Latin",
"Tetelcingo Nahuatl terms derived from Spanish"
],
"glosses": [
"Cabbage."
],
"links": [
[
"Cabbage",
"cabbage"
]
]
}
],
"word": "culex"
}
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