cimex

See also: Cimex

English

Wikispecies

Cimex lectularius

Etymology

From the genus name Cimex, from Latin cīmex (“bug”). Doublet of chinch.

Noun

cimex (plural cimices)

  1. 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

Etymology

Unknown origin.

Pronunciation
  • (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈkiː.meks/, [ˈkiː.mɛks]

Noun

cīmex m (genitive cīmicis); third declension

  1. bug
  2. bedbug

Declension

Third declension.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative cīmex cīmicēs
Genitive cīmicis cīmicum
Dative cīmicī cīmicibus
Accusative cīmicem cīmicēs
Ablative cīmice cīmicibus
Vocative cīmex cīmicēs

Descendants
  • Albanian: qimqë
  • Catalan: xinxa
  • Dalmatian: cinko
  • English: cimex
  • Italian: cimice
  • Mozarabic: جّيمْجِّ‎

References
  • 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
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