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Definitions and meaning of pax

pax

English

Pronunciation

  • enPR: păks, IPA(key): /pæks/
  • Rhymes: -æks
  • Homophone: packs

Etymology 1

From Middle English pax and Latin pax (“peace”). Doublet of peace. See peace. As school slang, originally used at Winchester College, Hampshire, in the United Kingdom.

Noun

pax

  1. (Christianity) A painted, stamped or carved tablet with a representation of Christ or the Virgin Mary, which was kissed by the priest during the Mass ("kiss of peace") and then passed to other officiating clergy and the congregation to be kissed. See also osculatory.
  2. (British, dated, school slang) Friendship; truce.
  3. (Christianity) The kiss of peace.
  4. (Christianity) A crucifix, a tablet with the image of Christ on the cross upon it, or a reliquary.
  5. (history) Any of several notable periods of peace in human history, particularly owing to unquestionable hegemony on the model of the Pax Romana.

Interjection

pax

  1. (UK, dated, school slang) A cry for peace or truce in children's games.
    Synonyms: fainites, (Scotland, obsolete) barlafumble
Translations

Etymology 2

Abbreviation of passenger; -x is an abbreviation marker as in DX, TX, Dx, Rx, etc.

Noun

pax (plural pax)

  1. (informal, usually in the plural) A passenger; passengers.
  2. (informal, usually in the plural, by extension, hospitality industry) A guest (at an event or function).
  3. (Malaysia, Singapore, Philippines, by extension, restaurant industry) A restaurant guest, when counting; person.
Derived terms
Translations

Anagrams

  • AXP, XAP

Dutch

Etymology

From English Personnel Attached/Available for Exercise.

Noun

pax m (plural [please provide], diminutive [please provide])

  1. (an interchangeable) soldier, private
    Iedere pax een nieuwe helm. ― A new helmet for every pax.

Related terms

  • soldaat

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *pāks, from Proto-Indo-European *péh₂ḱ-s (“peace”), from the root *peh₂ḱ- (“to join, to attach”).

Pronunciation

  • (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈpaːks]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈpaks]

Noun

pāx f (genitive pācis); third declension

  1. peace
  2. (poetic) rest, quiet, ease
    Synonyms: otium, tranquillitas, serenitas, laxāmentum, quies
    Antonyms: seditio, tumultus, turba, inquies, concursus
  3. (transferred sense) grace (esp. from the gods)
  4. (transferred sense) leave, good leave (permission)
  5. (Ecclesiastical Latin) peace, harmony

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Derived terms

Related terms

  • pacō
  • pacīscor
  • compecīscor
  • compectum
  • pācō

Descendants

Interjection

pāx

  1. enough talking! silence! hush! peace!
    Synonyms: pāx sit rēbus, tacē, tacē tū, fac taceās, dēsine, st, linguae temperā

Descendants

  • → Ancient Greek: πᾱ́ξ! (pā́x!)

References

  • “pax”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “pax”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • "pax", 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)
  • pax in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • “pax”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • “pax”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray

Middle English

Alternative forms

  • pakes, paxe, paxse

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin pāx.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /paks/

Noun

pax

  1. pax (tablet with carved religious image)
    Synonym: paxbrede
  2. (rare) kiss of peace

Related terms

  • paxbrede

Descendants

  • English: pax

References

  • “pax, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Swedish

Etymology

Since 1880 from Latin pāx (“peace”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /paks/
  • Homophone: packs

Interjection

pax

  1. (childish) dibs (to claim a stake to something); used as a noun with the verbs få “get, receive” and ha “have”, or as a verb; att paxa.
    Pax för soffan! - “I have (first) dibs on the sofa!”
    Jag fick pax på framsätet! - “I got dibs on shotgun!”
    Jag har paxat fåtöljen - I "have dibbed" the armchair

Synonyms

  • tjing

Yucatec Maya

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /paʃ/

Verb

pax (transitive)

  1. to play (produce music from a musical instrument)

Conjugation

Related terms

  • paax

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