different between pax vs pace

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: p?ks, IPA^(key): /pæks/
• Homophone: packs

Etymology 1

From Middle English pax, from Latin pax (“peace”). See peace. As school slang, originally used at Winchester College, Hampshire in the United Kingdom.

Noun

pax

1. (Christianity) A painted, stamped or carved tablet with a representation of Christ or the Virgin Mary, which was kissed by the priest during the Mass ("kiss of peace") and then passed to other officiating clergy and the congregation to be kissed. See also osculatory.
2. (Britain, dated, school slang) Friendship; truce.

3. (Christianity) The kiss of peace.
4. (Christianity) A crucifix, a tablet with the image of Christ on the cross upon it, or a reliquary.

Interjection

pax

1. (Britain, dated, school slang) A cry for peace or truce in children's games.

Translations

Etymology 2

Abbreviation of passenger. X is an abbreviation marker as in DX, TX and canx.

Noun

pax (plural pax)

1. (informal, usually in the plural) A passenger; passengers.
2. (informal, usually in the plural, by extension, hospitality industry) A guest (at an event or function).

Translations

Anagrams

• AXP, XAP

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *p?ks, Proto-Indo-European *péh??-s (“peace”), from the root *peh??- (“to join, to attach”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /pa?ks/, [pä?ks?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /paks/, [p?ks]

Noun

p?x f (genitive p?cis); third declension

1. peace

2. (poetic) rest, quiet, ease
3. (transferred sense) grace (esp. from the gods)
4. (transferred sense) leave, good leave (permission)
5. (ecclesiastical) peace, harmony

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Derived terms

Related terms

• pac?
• pac?scor
• compec?scor
• compectum
• p?c?

Descendants

Interjection

p?x

1. enough talking! silence! hush! peace!

   Synonyms: p?x sit r?bus, tac?, tac? t?, fac tace?s, d?sine, st, linguae temper?!

References

• pax in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• pax in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• pax in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• pax in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book?^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
• pax in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• pax in William Smith, editor (1848) A Dictionary of Greek Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray

Middle English

Alternative forms

• pakes, paxe, paxse

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin p?x.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /paks/

Noun

pax

1. pax (tablet with carved religious image)

   Synonym: paxbrede

2. (rare) kiss of peace

Related terms

• paxbrede

Descendants

• English: pax

References

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

Swedish

Etymology

Since 1880 from Latin p?x (“peace”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /paks/
• Homophone: packs

Interjection

pax

1. (children’s language) dibs (to claim a stake to something); used as a noun with the verbs få “get, receive” and ha “have”, or as a verb; att paxa.

   Pax för soffan! - “I have (first) dibs on the sofa!”

   Jag fick pax på framsätet! - “I got dibs on shotgun!”

   Jag har paxat fåtöljen - I "have dibbed" the armchair

Synonyms

• tjing

English

Etymology 1

Borrowed into Middle English from Anglo-Norman pas, Old French pas, and their source, Latin passus. Doublet of pas; cf. also pass. Cognate with Spanish pasear.

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /pe?s/
• Rhymes: -e?s

Noun

pace (plural paces)

1. Step.
   1. A step taken with the foot. [from 14th century]
   2. The distance covered in a step (or sometimes two), either vaguely or according to various specific set measurements. [from 14th century]

2. Way of stepping.
   1. A manner of walking, running or dancing; the rate or style of how someone moves with their feet. [from 14th century]
   2. Any of various gaits of a horse, specifically a 2-beat, lateral gait. [from 15th century]
3. Speed or velocity in general. [from 15th century]
4. (cricket) A measure of the hardness of a pitch and of the tendency of a cricket ball to maintain its speed after bouncing. [from 19th century]
5. (collective) A group of donkeys.
   • 1952, G. B. Stern, The Donkey Shoe, The Macmillan Company (1952), page 29:

     […] but at Broadstairs and other places along the coast, a pace of donkeys stood on the sea-shore expectant (at least, their owners were expectant) of children clamouring to ride.

   • 2006, "Drop the dead donkeys", The Economist, 9 November 2006:

     A pace of donkeys fans out in different directions.

   • 2007, Elinor De Wire, The Lightkeepers' Menagerie: Stories of Animals at Lighthouses, Pineapple Press (2007), ?ISBN, page 200:

     Like a small farm, the lighthouse compound had its chattering of chicks, pace of donkeys, troop of horses, and fold of sheep.

6. (obsolete) Passage, route.
   1. (obsolete) One's journey or route. [14th-18th century]
   2. (obsolete) A passage through difficult terrain; a mountain pass or route vulnerable to ambush etc. [14th-17th century]
      • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.1:

        But when she saw them gone she forward went, / As lay her journey, through that perlous Pace [...].

   3. (obsolete) An aisle in a church. [15th-19th century]

Derived terms

Translations

Adjective

pace (not comparable)

1. (cricket) Describing a bowler who bowls fast balls.

Verb

pace (third-person singular simple present paces, present participle pacing, simple past and past participle paced)

1. To walk back and forth in a small distance.
   • 1874, Marcus Clarke, For the Term of His Natural Life Chapter V

     Groups of men, in all imaginable attitudes, were lying, standing, sitting, or pacing up and down.

2. To set the speed in a race. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
3. To measure by walking.

Derived terms

• (set the speed in a race): pacemaker

Translations

Etymology 2

From Latin p?ce (“in peace”), ablative form of p?x (“peace”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?pæt?e?/, /?p??t?e?/, /?pe?si?/

Preposition

pace

1. (formal) With all due respect to.

Usage notes

Used when expressing a contrary opinion, in formal speech or writing.

Translations

Etymology 3

Alteration of archaic Pasch.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /pe?s/

Noun

pace (plural paces)

1. Easter.

Derived terms

• pace egg

References

Anagrams

• APEC, CAPE, Cape, EAPC, EPAC, EPCA, PECA, cape

Esperanto

Etymology

paco +? -e

Pronunciation

Adverb

pace

1. peacefully

Galician

Verb

pace

1. third-person singular present indicative of pacer
2. second-person singular imperative of pacer

Interlingua

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?pa.tse/

Noun

pace (uncountable)

1. peace

Italian

Etymology

From Latin p?cem, accusative of p?x (“peace”), from Proto-Indo-European *peh??-.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?pa.t??e/
• Hyphenation: pà?ce

Noun

pace f (plural paci)

1. peace

Adverb

pace

1. (colloquial) peace be with you; that's it; end of the story

Related terms

Anagrams

• cape

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?pa?.ke/, [?pä?k?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?pa.t??e/, [?p??t???]

Noun

p?ce

1. ablative singular of p?x

Middle English

Verb

pace

1. proceed; go forward
   • 1387-1410, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales, General Prologue

     Er that I ferther in this tale pace, / Me thynketh it acordaunt to resoun / To telle yow al the condicioun / Of ech of hem, so as it semed me, / And whiche they weren, and of what degree […]

Pali

Alternative forms

Verb

pace

1. first-person singular present/imperative middle of pacati (“to cook”)
2. singular optative active of pacati (“to cook”)

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?pa.t?s?/

Noun

pace m anim

1. nominative/accusative/vocative plural of pac

Noun

pace f

1. nominative/accusative/vocative plural of paca

Noun

pace f

1. dative/locative singular of paka

Romanian

Etymology

From Latin p?cem, accusative of p?x (“peace”), from Proto-Indo-European *peh??-.

Noun

pace f (uncountable)

1. peace

Declension

Antonyms

• r?zboi

Derived terms

• pa?nic

Related terms

• împ?ca

See also

• lini?te

Spanish

Verb

pace

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