different between coax vs coix

English

Etymology 1

originally (1586) in the slang phrase to make a coax of, from earlier noun coax, cox, cokes "fool, simpleton", itself of obscure origin, perhaps related to cock (“male bird, pert boy”). The modern spelling is from 1706.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /k??ks/
• (US) enPR: k?ks, IPA^(key): /ko?ks/
• Homophones: Cokes, cokes

Verb

coax (third-person singular simple present coaxes, present participle coaxing, simple past and past participle coaxed)

1. (obsolete) To fondle, kid, pet, tease.
2. (transitive) To wheedle or persuade (a person, organisation, animal etc.) gradually or by use of flattery to do something.
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3. (transitive) To carefully manipulate (someone or something) into a particular desired state, situation or position.

Synonyms

• (to fondle): caress, grope, touch up; see also Thesaurus:fondle
• (persuade gradually): cajole, canoodle, persuade, wheedle
• (manipulate carefully into position): ease

Translations

Noun

coax (plural coaxes)

1. (obsolete) A simpleton; a dupe.

   • Go, you're a brainless Coax, a Toy, a Fop, I'll go no farther than your Name, Sir Gregory

Etymology 2

Shortened from coaxial

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?k??æks/
• (US) enPR: k???ks, IPA^(key): /ko?æks/

Noun

coax (countable and uncountable, plural coaxes)

1. Short for coaxial cable.

Adjective

coax (not comparable)

1. Clipping of coaxial.

Translations

References

• Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “coax”, in Online Etymology Dictionary

Anagrams

• coxa

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k?.aks/

Noun

coax m (plural coax)

1. coax (coaxial cable)

Synonyms

• coaxial
• câble coaxial

English

Etymology

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Noun

coix (uncountable)

1. An East Asian grass, Coix lacryma-jobi, sometimes harvested as a cereal.

Anagrams

• oxic

Catalan

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin c?xus (“lame”), from Latin coxa. Compare Spanish cojo, Portuguese coxo, Aragonese coixo.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /?ko?/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /?koj?/

Adjective

coix (feminine coixa, masculine plural coixos, feminine plural coixes)

1. lame
2. wobbly (due to one leg being shorter)

Further reading

• “coix” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “coix” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “coix” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “coix” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ???? (kóïx).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?ko.iks/, [?ko?ks?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?ko.iks/, [?k??iks]

Noun

coix f (genitive coicis); third declension

1. a kind of Ethiopian palm

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Descendants

• Translingual: Coix

References

• coix in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• coix in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette