different between flix vs elix

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fl?ks/
• Homophone: flicks

Etymology 1

Compare flax.

Noun

flix (uncountable)

1. The soft fur of some animals, especially the beaver.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of J. Dyer to this entry?)

Etymology 2

Phonetic respelling.

Noun

flix pl (plural only)

1. (slang) Alternative form of flicks (motion pictures)

English

Verb

elix (third-person singular simple present elixes, present participle elixing, simple past and past participle elixed)

1. (obsolete, transitive) To draw out or extract.
   • c. 1599, John Marston, Antonio and Mellida

     O that our muse / Had those abstruse and sinewy faculties / That with a strain of fresh invention / She might press out the rarity of art, / The pur'st elixed juice of rich conceit, / In your attentive ears, that with the lip / Of gracious elocution we might drink / A sound carouse unto your health of wit.

Related terms

• elixir

References

• elix in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Anagrams

• Lexi, ilex

Latin

Etymology

From ?- +? lax.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?e?.liks/, [?e?l?ks?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?e.liks/, [???liks]

Noun

?lix f (genitive ?licis); third declension

1. drainage ditch

Declension

Third-declension noun.

References

• elix in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• elix in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• elix in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• elix in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)