different between pax vs pfx

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

Noun

pfx

1. Abbreviation of prefix.

Related terms

• sfx