different between disease vs culex

English

Alternative forms

• (uneasiness): dis-ease

Etymology

From Middle English disese, from Anglo-Norman desese, disaise, from Old French desaise, from des- + aise. Equivalent to dis- +? ease. Displaced native Middle English adle, audle (“disease”) (from Old English ?dl (“disease, sickness”), see adle), Middle English cothe, coathe (“disease”) (from Old English coþu (“disease”), see coath).

Pronunciation

• enPR: d?-z?z? IPA^(key): /d??zi?z/
• Rhymes: -i?z

Noun

disease (countable and uncountable, plural diseases)

1. (pathology) An abnormal condition of a human, animal or plant that causes discomfort or dysfunction; distinct from injury insofar as the latter is usually instantaneously acquired.
   • November 22, 1787, James Madison Jr., Federalist No. 10

     The instability, injustice, and confusion, introduced into the public councils, have, in truth, been the mortal diseases under which popular governments have every where perished; [...]
2. (by extension) Any abnormal or harmful condition, as of society, people's attitudes, way of living etc.
   • 1955, The Urantia Book, Paper 134:6.7

     War is not man's great and terrible disease; war is a symptom, a result. The real disease is the virus of national sovereignty.

3. Lack of ease; uneasiness; trouble; vexation; disquiet.

Synonyms

• See Thesaurus:disease

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

disease (third-person singular simple present diseases, present participle diseasing, simple past and past participle diseased)

1. (obsolete) To cause unease; to annoy, irritate.
2. To infect with a disease.

Anagrams

• Seaside, seaside

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