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Is culex a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word culex is a Scrabble US word. The word culex is worth 14 points in Scrabble:

C3U1L1E1X8

Is culex a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word culex is a Scrabble UK word and has 14 points:

C3U1L1E1X8

Is culex a Words With Friends word?

Yes. The word culex is a Words With Friends word. The word culex is worth 17 points in Words With Friends (WWF):

C4U2L2E1X8

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5-letter words (1 found)

CULEX,

4-letter words (5 found)

CLUE,EXUL,LUCE,LUXE,ULEX,

3-letter words (7 found)

CEL,CUE,ECU,LEU,LEX,LUX,ULE,

2-letter words (3 found)

EL,EX,XU,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 17 words from culex according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 5 letters words made out of culex

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Definitions and meaning of culex

culex

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Etymology

Borrowed from Latin culex (“gnat”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈkjuː.lɛks/

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 *ḱuH-ló-, see also Old Armenian սլաք (slakʿ, “roasting spit”), Irish cuil (“mosquito”), and Welsh cylion (“gnats”).

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈku.leks/, [ˈkʊɫ̪ɛks̠]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈku.leks/, [ˈkuːleks]

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

  • culicīnus

Descendants

  • Esperanto: kulo
  • 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

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