different between appendix vs postscript

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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

Alternative forms

• post script
• postscriptum (post scriptum)
• PS (P.S., p.s., etc.)

Etymology

From New Latin postscriptum, from Latin, neuter of postscriptus, past participle of postscr?b? (“write after”), from post (“after”) + scr?b? (“write”).

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /?po?st.sk??pt/

Noun

postscript (plural postscripts)

1. (countable) An addendum to a letter, added after the author's signature.
2. (countable) An addition to a story, play, etc. after its completion.

Usage notes

To indicate the beginning of a postscript to a letter, one often uses the abbreviation PS (or P.S., p.s., etc) followed by a colon or comma.

Synonyms

• (addendum to a letter): afterscript, afterword

Translations

Verb

postscript (third-person singular simple present postscripts, present participle postscripting, simple past and past participle postscripted)

1. To extend (a letter or another document) with additional remarks.