cimex

See also: Cimex

English

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

cimex (plural cimices)

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...

Unknown origin.

cīmex m (genitive cīmicis); third declension

Third-declension noun.

Balkan Romance:
- Romanian: cince
Dalmatian:
- cinco
Italo-Romance:
- Italian: cimice
- Neapolitan: pimmece
- Sicilian: cimicia
Padanian:
- Emilian: samze, semze ⇒ semza, simza, sümesa
- Ligurian: scimixa, scixima
- Lombard: simes, sumas, sisme, sùmec, sumèc, sìmec ⇒ sumèga, simèga
- Piedmontese: sims, simis, simes, sums
- Romagnol: semze, semz ⇒ semza
Gallo-Romance:
- Old Catalan: címeu
- Occitan: címec, cimèc, cìmet, cime, cimze, cindre, cimi, cime, çumi
Ibero-Romance: f
- Mozarabic: *činče (see there for further descendants)
- Old Spanish: çisme
  - Spanish: chisme
- Portuguese: chisme
Insular Romance:
- Sardinian: chìmighe
Borrowings:
→ Albanian: qimqë
→ Basque: zimitz
→ English: cimex
→ Esperanto: cimo
→ Translingual: Cimex

“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.