different between adjunct vs appendix

English

Etymology

From Latin adiunctus, perfect passive participle of adiung? (“join to”), from ad + iung? (“join”). Doublet of adjoint.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?æd?.??kt/
• Hyphenation: ad?junct

Noun

adjunct (plural adjuncts)

1. An appendage; something attached to something else in a subordinate capacity.
2. A person associated with another, usually in a subordinate position; a colleague.
   • 1641, Henry Wotton, A Parallel between Robert late Earl of Essex and George late Duke of Buckingham

     Lord Cottington (as an adjunct of singular experience and trust)

3. (brewing) An unmalted grain or grain product that supplements the main mash ingredient.
4. (dated, metaphysics) A quality or property of the body or mind, whether natural or acquired, such as colour in the body or judgement in the mind.
5. (music) A key or scale closely related to another as principal; a relative or attendant key.
6. (grammar) A dispensable phrase in a clause or sentence that amplifies its meaning, such as "for a while" in "I typed for a while".
7. (syntax, X-bar theory) A constituent which is both the daughter and the sister of an X-bar.

   • We can see from (34) that Determiners are sisters of N-bar and daughters of
     N-double-bar; Adjuncts are both sisters and daughters of N-bar; and Comple-
     ments are sisters of N and daughters of N-bar. This means that Adjuncts re-
     semble Complements in that both are daughters of N-bar; but they differ from
     Complements in that Adjuncts are sisters of N-bar, whereas Complements are
     sisters of N. Likewise, it means that Adjuncts resemble Determiners in that
     both are sisters of N-bar, but they differ from Determiners in that Adjuncts
     are daughters of N-bar, whereas Determiners are daughters of N-double-bar.

8. (rhetoric) Symploce.
9. (category theory) One of a pair of morphisms which relate to each other through a pair of adjoint functors.

Synonyms

• (something attached to something else): addition, supplement; See also Thesaurus:adjunct
• (person associated with another): See also Thesaurus:associate (colleague) or Thesaurus:attendant (subordinate)

Derived terms

• adjuncthood
• adjunction
• adjunctive

Translations

Adjective

adjunct (comparative more adjunct, superlative most adjunct)

1. Connected in a subordinate function.
2. Added to a faculty or staff in a secondary position.

Translations

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch adjoinct, from Latin adiunctus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??dj??kt/, /?t?j??kt/
• Hyphenation: ad?junct
• Rhymes: -??kt

Noun

adjunct m (plural adjuncten)

1. An adjunct, a subordinate person, esp. an attendant of a government official.

Related terms

• adjunct-directeur

Romanian

Etymology

From German Adjunkt or Latin adjunctus

Adjective

adjunct m or n (feminine singular adjunct?, masculine plural adjunc?i, feminine and neuter plural adjuncte)

1. deputy

Declension

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English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin appendix.

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) enPR: ?-p?n'd?ks, IPA^(key): /??p?n.d?ks/
  • (pin–pen merger) IPA^(key): /??p?n.d?ks/

Noun

appendix (plural appendices or appendixes)

1. (obsolete in general sense) Something attached to something else; an attachment or accompaniment.
   • , vol.I, New York 2001, p.244:

     idleness is an appendix to nobility; they count it a disgrace to work, and spend all their days in sports, recreations, and pastimes […]

2. A text added to the end of a book or an article, containing additional information.
3. (anatomy) The vermiform appendix, an inner organ that can become inflamed.
4. (anatomy) Any process, prolongation, or projection.

Usage notes

Both plural forms are found in various major dictionaries:

Synonyms

• (something attached): addition, attachment; See also Thesaurus:adjunct

Derived terms

• appendical
• appendicitis
• appendectomy

Translations

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin appendix.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???p?n.d?ks/
• Hyphenation: ap?pen?dix

Noun

appendix f (plural appendices)

1. An appendix, a section appended to the main body of a text or publication with peripheral information.

   Synonym: aanhangsel

2. A vermiform appendix.

   Synonym: wormvormig aanhangsel

3. The appendix of a balloon.

   Synonyms: vulaanhangsel, vulslurf

Derived terms

• appendicitis

Descendants

• ? Indonesian: apendiks

Latin

Etymology

From append? (“hang upon”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ap?pen.diks/, [äp?p?n?d??ks?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ap?pen.diks/, [?p?p?n?d?iks]

Noun

appendix f (genitive appendicis); third declension

1. supplement, addition
2. appendage
3. barberry (shrub)

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Related terms

• appendicium
• append?
• appensor
• appensus

Descendants

References

• appendix in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• appendix in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• appendix in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• appendix in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette