different between culex vs anopheles

English

Wikispecies

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin culex (“gnat”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?kju?.l?ks/

Noun

culex (plural culices)

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

Derived terms

• culicidal

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *?uH-ló-, see also Old Armenian ???? (slak?, “roasting spit”), Irish cuil (“mosquito”), and Welsh cylion (“gnats”)

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?ku.leks/, [?k????ks?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?ku.leks/, [?ku?l?ks]

Noun

culex m (genitive culicis); third declension

1. gnat, midge, mosquito
   • Erasmus, Adagia; 1.10.66

     Indus elephantus haud curat culicem.

     An Indian elephant does not worry about a gnat.

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Derived terms

• culic?nus

Descendants

• Italian: culice
• Catalan: cúlex
• French: cousin

References

• 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

Tetelcingo Nahuatl

Etymology

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

Compare Highland Puebla Nahuatl colex.

Noun

culex

1. Cabbage.

References

• 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

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