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.

Insular Romance:
- Sardinian: chìmighe
Balkano-Romance:
- Romanian: cince (dialectal, fossil word)
Italo-Dalmatian:
- Dalmatian: cinco
- Italian: cimice
- Neapolitan: pimmece
- Sicilian: cimicia
Gallo-Italic:
- 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:
- Occitan: címec, cimèc, cìmet, cime, cimze, cindre, cimi, cime, çumi
- Old Catalan: címeu
Ibero-Romance:
- Mozarabic: *činče (see there for further descendants)
- Old Spanish: çisme
  - Spanish: chisme (obsolete)
- Portuguese: chisme (Trás-os-Montes)
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.