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"depth": 1,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "ca",
"2": "cúlex",
"bor": "1"
},
"expansion": "→ Catalan: cúlex",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "→ Catalan: cúlex"
},
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "eo",
"2": "kulo",
"bor": "1"
},
"expansion": "→ Esperanto: kulo",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "→ Esperanto: kulo"
},
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "it",
"2": "culice",
"bor": "1"
},
"expansion": "→ Italian: culice",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "→ Italian: culice"
}
],
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{
"args": {
"1": "la",
"2": "ine-pro",
"3": "*ḱuH-ló-"
},
"expansion": "Proto-Indo-European *ḱuH-ló-",
"name": "der"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From Proto-Indo-European *ḱuH-ló-, see also Old Armenian սլաք (slakʻ, “roasting spit”), Irish cuil (“mosquito”), and Welsh cylion (“gnats”).",
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{
"form": "culicis",
"tags": [
"genitive"
]
},
{
"form": "no-table-tags",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"table-tags"
]
},
{
"form": "la-ndecl",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"inflection-template"
]
},
{
"form": "culex",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"nominative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "culicēs",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"nominative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "culicis",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"genitive",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "culicum",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"genitive",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "culicī",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"dative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "culicibus",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"dative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "culicem",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"accusative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "culicēs",
"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",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"plural",
"vocative"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "culex<3>",
"g": "m"
},
"expansion": "culex m (genitive culicis); third declension",
"name": "la-noun"
}
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{
"args": {
"1": "culex<3>"
},
"name": "la-ndecl"
}
],
"lang": "Latin",
"lang_code": "la",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Latin entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Latin masculine nouns in the third declension",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with 3 entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"langcode": "la",
"name": "Insects",
"orig": "la:Insects",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
}
],
"derived": [
{
"sense": "culicīnus",
"tags": [
"French",
"archaic",
"regional"
],
"word": "cousin"
},
{
"sense": "culicīnus; Italian",
"tags": [
"archaic",
"regional"
],
"word": "cugino"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"english": "An Indian elephant does not worry about a gnat.",
"ref": "Erasmus, Adagia; 1.10.66",
"text": "Indus elephantus haud curat culicem."
}
],
"glosses": [
"gnat, midge, mosquito"
],
"id": "en-culex-la-noun-mGSh3dFH",
"links": [
[
"gnat",
"gnat"
],
[
"midge",
"midge"
],
[
"mosquito",
"mosquito"
]
],
"tags": [
"declension-3",
"masculine"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "[ˈkʊ.ɫɛks]",
"tags": [
"Classical-Latin"
]
},
{
"ipa": "[ˈkuː.leks]",
"note": "modern Italianate Ecclesiastical"
}
],
"word": "culex"
}
{
"derived": [
{
"sense": "culicīnus",
"tags": [
"French",
"archaic",
"regional"
],
"word": "cousin"
},
{
"sense": "culicīnus; Italian",
"tags": [
"archaic",
"regional"
],
"word": "cugino"
}
],
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{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "ca",
"2": "cúlex",
"bor": "1"
},
"expansion": "→ Catalan: cúlex",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "→ Catalan: cúlex"
},
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "eo",
"2": "kulo",
"bor": "1"
},
"expansion": "→ Esperanto: kulo",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "→ Esperanto: kulo"
},
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "it",
"2": "culice",
"bor": "1"
},
"expansion": "→ Italian: culice",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "→ Italian: culice"
}
],
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{
"args": {
"1": "la",
"2": "ine-pro",
"3": "*ḱuH-ló-"
},
"expansion": "Proto-Indo-European *ḱuH-ló-",
"name": "der"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From Proto-Indo-European *ḱuH-ló-, see also Old Armenian սլաք (slakʻ, “roasting spit”), Irish cuil (“mosquito”), and Welsh cylion (“gnats”).",
"forms": [
{
"form": "culicis",
"tags": [
"genitive"
]
},
{
"form": "no-table-tags",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"table-tags"
]
},
{
"form": "la-ndecl",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"inflection-template"
]
},
{
"form": "culex",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"nominative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "culicēs",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"nominative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "culicis",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"genitive",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "culicum",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"genitive",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "culicī",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"dative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "culicibus",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"dative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "culicem",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"accusative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "culicēs",
"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",
"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": [
{
"categories": [
"Latin 2-syllable words",
"Latin entries with incorrect language header",
"Latin lemmas",
"Latin masculine nouns",
"Latin masculine nouns in the third declension",
"Latin nouns",
"Latin terms derived from Proto-Indo-European",
"Latin terms with IPA pronunciation",
"Latin third declension nouns",
"Pages with 3 entries",
"Pages with entries",
"la:Insects"
],
"examples": [
{
"english": "An Indian elephant does not worry about a gnat.",
"ref": "Erasmus, Adagia; 1.10.66",
"text": "Indus elephantus haud curat culicem."
}
],
"glosses": [
"gnat, midge, mosquito"
],
"links": [
[
"gnat",
"gnat"
],
[
"midge",
"midge"
],
[
"mosquito",
"mosquito"
]
],
"tags": [
"declension-3",
"masculine"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "[ˈkʊ.ɫɛks]",
"tags": [
"Classical-Latin"
]
},
{
"ipa": "[ˈkuː.leks]",
"note": "modern Italianate Ecclesiastical"
}
],
"word": "culex"
}
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