culex

Directly from Latin culex (“mosquito”).

culex (plural culices)

1. Any of various mosquitoes of the genus Culex, some of which carry disease

• culicidal

From Proto-Indo-European *ḱuH-ló-, see also Old Armenian սլաք (slakʿ, “roasting spit”) and Irish cuil (“mosquito”).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈku.leks/, [ˈkʊ.ɫɛks]

culex m (genitive culicis); third declension

1. gnat, midge
   • Erasmus, Adagia; 1.10.66

     Indus elephantus haud curat culicem.

     An Indian elephant does not worry about a gnat.

Third declension.

• culicīnus

• French: cousin

• culex in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• culex in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• culex in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• culex in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers

Borrowed from Spanish coles (“cabbages”), plural of col (“cabbage”), from Latin caulis.

Compare Highland Puebla Nahuatl colex.

culex

1. Cabbage.

• Brewer, Forrest; Brewer, Jean G. (1962) Vocabulario mexicano de Tetelcingo, Morelos, segunda impresión edition, México, D.F.: Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, published 1971, page 23