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English

Etymology

From Latin indicia, plural of indicium (“a notice, information, discovery, sign, mark, token”), from index (“index”); see index.

Noun

indicia

1. plural of indicium
2. Indications or signs.

   This document has none of the indicia of a contract of adhesion.

3. Distinctive markings.

indicia (plural indicias)

1. (philately) A preprinted marking on a mailpiece which shows that postage has been paid by the sender.

Related terms

• index
• indicate
• indicial

Latin

Noun

indicia

1. nominative plural of indicium
2. accusative plural of indicium
3. vocative plural of indicium

Portuguese

Verb

indicia

1. Third-person singular (ele, ela, also used with tu and você^?) present indicative of indiciar
2. Second-person singular (tu) affirmative imperative of indiciar

Spanish

Verb

indicia

1. Informal second-person singular (tú) affirmative imperative form of indiciar.
2. Formal second-person singular (usted) present indicative form of indiciar.
3. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present indicative form of indiciar.

For Wiktionary's indexes, see Wiktionary:Index

English

Etymology

From Latin index (“a discoverer, informer, spy; of things, an indicator, the forefinger, a title, superscription”), from indic? (“point out, show”); see indicate.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??nd?ks/

Noun

index (plural indexes or indices or (obsolete, in use in the 17th century) index's)

1. An alphabetical listing of items and their location.

2. The index finger; the forefinger.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:index finger

3. A movable finger on a gauge, scale, etc.
4. (typography) A symbol resembling a pointing hand, used to direct particular attention to a note or paragraph.

   Synonym: manicule

5. That which points out; that which shows, indicates, manifests, or discloses.
   • 1730, John Arbuthnot, An Essay Concerning the Nature of Aliments

     Tastes are the Indexes of the different Qualities of Plants.

6. A sign; an indication; a token.
   • 1887, Robert Louis Stevenson, The Misadventures of John Nicholson

     His son's empty guffaws […] struck him with pain as the indices of a weak mind.

7. (linguistics) A type of noun where the meaning of the form changes with respect to the context. E.g., 'Today's newspaper' is an indexical form since its referent will differ depending on the context. See also icon and symbol.
8. (economics) A single number calculated from an array of prices or of quantities.
9. (sciences) A number representing a property or ratio, a coefficient.
10. (mathematics) A raised suffix indicating a power.
11. (computing, especially programming and databases) An integer or other key indicating the location of data e.g. within an array, vector, database table, associative array, or hash table.
12. (computing, databases) A data structure that improves the performance of operations on a table.
13. (obsolete) A prologue indicating what follows.
    • c. 1599-1602, William Shakespeare, Hamlet, III, 4

      Ay me, what act, that roars so loud and thunders in the index?

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

See also

• (alphabetical listing): table of contents

References

• John A. Simpson and Edward S. C. Weiner, editors (1989) , “index”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, ?ISBN

Verb

index (third-person singular simple present indexes, present participle indexing, simple past and past participle indexed)

1. (transitive) To arrange an index for something, especially a long text.
2. To inventory, to take stock.
3. (chiefly economics) To normalise in order to account for inflation; to correct for inflation by linking to a price index in order to maintain real levels.
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5. (linguistics, transitive) To be indexical for (some situation or state of affairs); to indicate.
6. (computing) To access a value in a data container by an index.

Derived terms

• indexer

Translations

Further reading

• index in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• index in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

• nixed, xenid

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [??nd?ks]

Noun

index m

1. index (alphabetical listing of items and their location)
2. (economics) index

   index spot?ebitelských cen — consumer price index

3. (computing, databases) index (a data structure that improves the performance of operations on a table)

Synonyms

• (alphabetical listing): rejst?ík

Related terms

• See dikce
• indexace
• indexový
• indexovat
• indexování
• indicie
• indikace
• indikátor
• indikovat

Further reading

• index in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
• index in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch index, from Latin index.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??n.d?ks/
• Hyphenation: in?dex

Noun

index m (plural indexen or indices, diminutive indexje n)

1. index (list)
2. index (number or coefficient representing various relations)
3. (medicine, anatomy) index finger

   Synonym: wijsvinger

Derived terms

• brekingsindex
• prijsindex

Related terms

• indexatie
• indexeren
• indicator
• indiceren

French

Etymology

From Latin index (“pointer, indicator”), from indic? (“point out, show”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??.d?ks/

Noun

index m (plural index)

1. index
2. forefinger
3. The welcome page of a web site, typically index.html, index.htm or index.php

Derived terms

• mettre à l'index

Further reading

• “index” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Hungarian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin index.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?ind?ks]
• Hyphenation: in?dex
• Rhymes: -?ks

Noun

index (plural indexek)

1. (automotive) turn signal (US), indicator (UK) (each of the flashing lights on each side of a vehicle which indicate a turn is being made to left or right, or a lane change)

   Synonym: irányjelz?

2. pointer, hand, indicator (a needle or dial on a device)

   Synonyms: mutató, kar

3. (higher education) transcript, report card, course report (in higher education)

   Synonym: leckekönyv

   Coordinate term: (in lower education) ellen?rz?

4. index (an alphabetical listing of items and their location, usually at the end of publications)

   Synonyms: névmutató, tárgymutató, szómutató

5. ban, blacklist (a list of books that was banned)

Declension

Derived terms

References

Further reading

• index in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh: A magyar nyelv értelmez? szótára (’The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: ?ISBN

Latin

Etymology

From indic? (“point out, indicate, show”), from in (“in, at, on; into”) + dic? (“indicate; dedicate; set apart”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?in.deks/, [??n?d??ks?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?in.deks/, [?in?d??ks]

Noun

index m or f (genitive indicis); third declension

1. A pointer, indicator.
2. The index finger, forefinger.

   Synonym: digitus sal?t?ris

3. (of books) An index, list, catalogue, table, summary, digest.
4. (of books) A title, superscription.
5. A sign, indication, proof, mark, token, index.
6. An informer, discoverer, director, talebearer, guide, witness, betrayer, spy.
7. (of paintings or statues) An inscription.

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Derived terms

Related terms

Descendants

References

• index in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• index in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• index in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• index in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book?^[2], London: Macmillan and Co.
• index in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• index in William Smith, editor (1848) A Dictionary of Greek Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray
• index in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

Romanian

Etymology

From Latin index

Noun

index n (plural indexuri)

1. index

Declension

Swedish

Noun

index n

1. an index

Declension