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Yes. The word dux is a Scrabble US word. The word dux is worth 11 points in Scrabble:

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Definitions and meaning of dux

dux

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin dux (“leader”). Doublet of doge, duc, and duke.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /dʌks/
  • Rhymes: -ʌks
  • Homophone: ducks

Noun

dux (plural duxes or duces)

  1. (UK, Australia, New Zealand) The top (male or female) academic student in a school, or in a year of school; the top student in a specified academic discipline.
    Synonym: (North America) valedictorian
  2. (historical) A high-ranking commander in the Roman army, responsible for more than one legion.
  3. (music) The subject of a fugue, answered by the comes.

Related terms

  • duke
  • dux bellorum
  • doge

Anagrams

  • UXD

Azerbaijani

Etymology

From Russian дух (dux).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [duχ]

Noun

dux (definite accusative duxu, plural duxlar)

  1. (colloquial, proscribed) courage
    Synonyms: (vulgar) göt, cəsarət
    bunu eləmək üçün dux lazımdır! ― it takes courage to do this!
    buna duxum çatmır ― I lack the courage to do this

Declension

Further reading

  • “dux” in Obastan.com.

Latin

Etymology

From dūcō (“lead”, verb) +‎ -s (noun-forming suffix).

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /duks/, [d̪ʊks̠]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /duks/, [d̪uks]

Noun

dux m or f (genitive ducis); third declension

  1. leader, head
  2. commander, general, captain
  3. prince, ruler
  4. guide, cicerone, conductor
  5. (Medieval Latin) duke
    Coordinate term: ducissa

Usage notes

During the Roman Republic, dux could refer to anyone who commanded troops including foreign leaders but was not a formal military rank. In writing his commentaries on the Gallic Wars, Julius Caesar uses the term only for Celtic generals, with one exception for a Roman commander who held no official rank.

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Derived terms

  • archidux (Medieval)
  • condux (Medieval)
  • ducātus
  • ēducō
  • trādux

Related terms

  • archiducātus
  • dūcō

Descendants

References

  • “dux”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “dux”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • dux in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • dux in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • “dux”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • dux in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎[2], pre-publication website, 2005-2016
  • “dux”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
  • Sihler, Andrew L. (1995) New Comparative Grammar of Greek and Latin, Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN
  • Pokorny, Julius (1959) Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), Bern, München: Francke Verlag

Middle English

Noun

dux

  1. (Early Middle English) Alternative form of duk (“duke”)

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin dux. Doublet of duque.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈduɡs/ [ˈd̪uɣ̞s]
  • Rhymes: -uɡs
  • Syllabification: dux

Noun

dux m (plural dux)

  1. doge (chief magistrate in the republics of Venice and Genoa)

Further reading

  • “dux”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

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