"culex" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

IPA: /ˈkjuː.lɛks/ Forms: culices [plural]
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin culex (“gnat”). Etymology templates: {{bor|en|la|culex||gnat}} Latin culex (“gnat”) Head templates: {{en-noun|culices}} culex (plural culices)
  1. Any of various mosquitoes of the genus Culex, some of which carry disease. Wikipedia link: culex Categories (lifeform): Mosquitoes Derived forms: culicidal
    Sense id: en-culex-en-noun-CUs0xTo8 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 3 entries, Pages with entries

Noun [Latin]

IPA: /ˈku.leks/ [Classical-Latin], [ˈkʊɫ̪ɛks̠] [Classical-Latin], /ˈku.leks/ (note: modern Italianate Ecclesiastical), [ˈkuːleks] (note: modern Italianate Ecclesiastical)
Etymology: From Proto-Indo-European *ḱuH-ló-, see also Old Armenian սլաք (slakʻ, “roasting spit”), Irish cuil (“mosquito”), and Welsh cylion (“gnats”). Etymology templates: {{der|la|ine-pro|*ḱuH-ló-}} Proto-Indo-European *ḱuH-ló- Head templates: {{la-noun|culex<3>|g=m}} culex m (genitive culicis); third declension Inflection templates: {{la-ndecl|culex<3>}} Forms: culicis [genitive], no-table-tags [table-tags], culex [nominative, singular], culicēs [nominative, plural], culicis [genitive, singular], culicum [genitive, plural], culicī [dative, singular], culicibus [dative, plural], culicem [accusative, singular], culicēs [accusative, plural], culice [ablative, singular], culicibus [ablative, plural], culex [singular, vocative], culicēs [plural, vocative]
  1. gnat, midge, mosquito Tags: declension-3, masculine Categories (lifeform): Insects Derived forms: culicīnus

Noun [Tetelcingo Nahuatl]

Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish coles (“cabbages”), plural of col (“cabbage”), from Latin caulis. Compare Highland Puebla Nahuatl colex. Etymology templates: {{bor|nhg|es|coles|t=cabbages}} Spanish coles (“cabbages”), {{der|nhg|la|caulis}} Latin caulis, {{cog|azz|colex}} Highland Puebla Nahuatl colex Head templates: {{head|nhg|noun}} culex
  1. Cabbage.

Inflected forms

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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-02-03 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-01-20 using wiktextract (05fdf6b and 9dbd323). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.