You can make 3 words from pax according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.
All 3 letters words made out of pax
pax apx pxa xpa axp xap
Note: these 'words' (valid or invalid) are all the permutations of the word pax. These words are obtained by scrambling the letters in pax.
Definitions and meaning of pax
pax
Pronunciation
enPR: păks, IPA(key): /pæks/
Rhymes: -æks
Homophone: packs
Etymology 1
From Middle Englishpax and Latinpax(“peace”). Doublet of peace. See peace. As school slang, originally used at Winchester College, Hampshire in the United Kingdom.
Noun
pax
(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 alsoosculatory.
(British, dated, school slang) Friendship; truce.
(Christianity) The kiss of peace.
(Christianity) A crucifix, a tablet with the image of Christ on the cross upon it, or a reliquary.
(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
(UK, dated, school slang) A cry for peace or truce in children's games.
(transferred sense) leave, good leave (permission)
(Ecclesiastical Latin) peace, harmony
Declension
Third-declension noun.
Derived terms
Related terms
pacō
pacīscor
compecīscor
compectum
pācō
Descendants
Interjection
pāx
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 Latinpāx.
Pronunciation
IPA(key): /paks/
Noun
pax
pax(tablet with carved religious image)
Synonym:paxbrede
(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 Latinpāx(“peace”).
Pronunciation
IPA(key): /paks/
Homophone: packs
Interjection
pax
(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