different between anopheles vs aedes

English

Wikispecies

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ???????? (an?phel?s, “useless”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /??n?f?li?z/

Noun

anopheles (plural anopheles)

1. (entomology) Loose terminology for species in the Anopheles genus of mosquitoes, some of which may transmit various parasites, Plasmodium, that are the cause of malaria. More strictly speaking, as Anopheles is a proper name it should be capitalised.
   • 1983, Lawrence Durrell, Sebastian, Faber & Faber 2004 (Avignon Quintet), p. 1125:

     ‘I brought it back from the desert – they have been planting rice like fools, and now you get anopheles right up to the gates of Alexandria!’

Related terms

• Anopheles
• anopheline

Translations

Anagrams

• phenolase, salophene

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?ae?.de?s/, [?äe?d?e?s?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?e.des/, [???d??s]

Noun

aed?s f (genitive aedis); third declension

1. Alternative form of aedis

Declension

Third-declension noun (i-stem).

References

• aedes in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• aedes in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• aedes in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• aedes in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book?^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
• aedes in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• aedes in Ramminger, Johann (accessed 16 July 2016) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700?^[2], pre-publication website, 2005-2016
• aedes in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin