Cimexとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

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

名詞

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...

発音

• (Classical Latin) IPA: [ˈkiː.mɛks]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: [ˈt͡ʃiː.meks]

名詞

cīmex m (genitive cīmicis); third declension

1. bug
2. bedbug

語形変化

Third-declension noun.

派生した語

参照

• “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.