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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

English

Etymology

enlarge +? -ment

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?n?l??(?)d??m?nt/

Noun

enlargement (countable and uncountable, plural enlargements)

1. An act or instance of making something larger.

2. (figuratively) A making more obvious or serious; exacerbation.
   • 1874, Thomas Hardy, Far From the Madding Crowd, 2005 Barnes & Noble Classics publication of 1912 Wessex edition, p.337

     Bathsheba underwent the enlargement of her husband's absence from hours to days with a slight feeling of surprise, and a slight feeling of relief; yet neither sensation rose at any time far above the level commonly designated as indifference.

3. An image, particularly a photograph, that has been enlarged.
4. (obsolete) Freedom from confinement; liberty.
5. Diffuseness of speech or writing; a speaking at length.
   • 1897, Peter Joseph Cooke, Forensic Eloquence (page 40)

     Briefly, a discourse generally consists in some prefatory remarks which pave the way as it were for the enlargement upon which a speaker usually enters when he speaks to any purpose.

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