different between appendix vs enclosure

For Wiktionary's appendices, see Appendix:Contents

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

English

Alternative forms

• inclosure (was as common as or more common until the early 1800s; now uncommon)

Etymology

Borrowed from Old French enclosure.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /?n?klo????/, /?n?klo????/
• (UK) IPA^(key): /?n?kl????/
• (General New Zealand) IPA^(key): /?n?kl????/
• Hyphenation: en?clo?sure

Noun

enclosure (countable and uncountable, plural enclosures)

1. (countable) Something enclosed, i.e. inserted into a letter or similar package.

   There was an enclosure with the letter — a photo.

2. (uncountable) The act of enclosing, i.e. the insertion or inclusion of an item in a letter or package.

   The enclosure of a photo with your letter is appreciated.

3. (countable) An area, domain, or amount of something partially or entirely enclosed by barriers.

   He faced punishment for creating the fenced enclosure in a public park.

   The glass enclosure holds the mercury vapor.

   The winning horse was first into the unsaddling enclosure.
4. (uncountable) The act of separating and surrounding an area, domain, or amount of something with a barrier.

   The enclosure of public land is against the law.

   The experiment requires the enclosure of mercury vapor in a glass tube.

   At first, untrained horses resist enclosure.

5. (uncountable, British History) The post-feudal process of subdivision of common lands for individual ownership.

   Strip-farming disappeared after enclosure.

6. (religion) The area of a convent, monastery, etc where access is restricted to community members.

Usage notes

• For more on the spelling of this word, see enclose.

Translations

Anagrams

• corneules, encolures

Old French

Alternative forms

• encloseure

Etymology

enclos-, stem of enclore +? -ure.

Noun

enclosure f (oblique plural enclosures, nominative singular enclosure, nominative plural enclosures)

1. enclosure (act of enclosing something)
2. enclosure (enclosed area)

References

• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (encloseure)
• enclosure on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub