different between fav vs fax

English

Alternative forms

• fave

Noun

fav (plural favs)

1. Alternative spelling of fave

Adjective

fav (comparative more fav, superlative most fav)

1. Alternative spelling of fave

Verb

fav (third-person singular simple present favs, present participle faving, simple past and past participle favd)

1. Alternative spelling of fave

Anagrams

• AFV, VFA

Cornish

Noun

fav f (singulative faven)

1. beans

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: f?ks, IPA^(key): /fæks/
• Homophone: facts (informal US and Canada pronunciation)
• Rhymes: -æks

Etymology 1

From Middle English fax, from Old English feax (“hair, head of hair”), from Proto-West Germanic *fahs, from Proto-Germanic *fahs? (“hair, mane”), from Proto-Indo-European *po?som (“hair”, literally “that which is combed, shorn, or plucked”), from Proto-Indo-European *pe?- (“to comb, shear, pluck”). Cognate with Dutch vas (“headhair”), German Fachs (“head-hair”), Norwegian faks (“mane”), Icelandic fax (“mane”), Sanskrit ???????? (pák?man, “eyelash, hair, filament”).

Noun

fax (usually uncountable, plural faxes)

1. (obsolete or Britain dialectal) The hair of the head.

Derived terms

• faxed
• Fairfax
• Halifax

Etymology 2

Clipping of facsimile, first attested 1979.

Noun

fax (plural faxes or faxxes)

1. A fax machine or a document received and printed by one.

Translations

Verb

fax (third-person singular simple present faxes or faxxes, present participle faxing or faxxing, simple past and past participle faxed or faxxed)

1. To send a document via a fax machine.

Translations

Czech

Noun

fax m

1. fax (document)
2. fax, fax machine

Declension

Related terms

• faxovat

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /f?ks/
• Hyphenation: fax
• Rhymes: -?ks

Etymology 1

Borrowed from English fax (“a fax machine; to fax”).

Noun

fax m (plural faxen, diminutive faxje n)

1. fax

Synonyms

• telefacsimile
• telefax

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

fax

1. first-person singular present indicative of faxen
2. imperative of faxen

Hungarian

Etymology

From English (tele)fax, from facsimile.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?f?ks]
• Rhymes: -?ks

Noun

fax (plural faxok)

1. fax

Declension

Derived terms

• faxol

(Compound words):

• faxkészülék
• faxkezel?
• faxpapír
• faxszám
• faxüzenet

References

Icelandic

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /faxs/
• IPA^(key): /faks/

Etymology 1

From Old Norse fax (“mane”) from Proto-Indo-European *po?-s-, from *pe?- (“to pluck”).

Noun

fax n (genitive singular fax, nominative plural föx)

1. mane (of a horse)

Declension

See also

• makki

Etymology 2

From English fax, from facsimile, from Latin.

Noun

fax n (genitive singular fax, nominative plural föx)

1. fax, telefax (document sent electronically and printed with a fax machine)

Declension

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *??weh?k- (“to shine”). Cognate with fac?tus, Lithuanian žvak? (“candle”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /faks/, [fäks?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /faks/, [f?ks]

Noun

fax f (genitive facis); third declension

1. torch, firebrand
2. fireball, comet
3. cause of ruin, incitement

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Derived terms

• facula

References

• fax in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• fax in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• fax in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• fax in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• fax in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• fax in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• fax in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
• Pokorny, Julius (1959) Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume II, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 495

Middle English

Alternative forms

• væx (early)

Etymology

From Old English feax, from Proto-West Germanic *fahs.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /faks/

Noun

fax (plural faxes)

1. The hair of the head.

Derived terms

• faxwax

Descendants

• English: fax (obsolete)
• Scots: fax

References

• “fax, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Norman

Etymology

Borrowed from English fax.

Noun

fax m (plural fax)

1. (Jersey) fax

Old Norse

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *fahs?, from *pe?- (“to pluck”).

Noun

fax n

1. a mane

Declension

Descendants

• Faroese: faks
• Icelandic: fax
• Norwegian: faks

References

• fax in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• fax in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• fax in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• fax in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• fax in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• fax in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

Polish

Etymology

Borrowed from English fax.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /faks/

Noun

fax m inan

1. fax

Declension

Synonyms

• faks, telefaks, telefax

Portuguese

Noun

fax m (plural faxes or fax)

1. fax (document transmitted by telephone)

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from English fax.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?fa?s/, [?fa??s]

Noun

fax m (plural fax)

1. fax

Swedish

Pronunciation

• Homophone: facks

Noun

fax c or n

1. a fax (machine) c
2. a fax (document) n

Declension

Synonyms

• telefax

Related terms

References

• fax in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)

Zhuang

Etymology

From Proto-Tai *va?? (“sky; weather”). Cognate with Thai ??? (fáa), Northern Thai ???, Lao ??? (f?), Lü ??? (faa²), Shan ??? (phâ?a) or ??? (fâ?a), Ahom ???????? (pha), ???????? (phaa), ???????????? (phoa), ???????????? (phoaa) or ???????????? (phra).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Zhuang) IPA^(key): /fa??/
• Tone numbers: fa⁴
• Hyphenation: fax

Noun

fax (Sawndip forms ???? or ???? or ????, old orthography fa?)

1. (dialectal, including Longzhou) sky

   Synonym: mbwn