different between pax vs pix

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

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA^(key): /p?ks/
• Homophones: picks, pics, pyx
• Rhymes: -?ks

Etymology 1

First attested 1932, abbreviation of pictures, first used in Variety magazine, along with other similar words that the magazine calls slanguage [1].

Noun

pix pl (plural only)

1. (informal) Plural form of pic in the sense of "picture".
   • 1946, “Palisades Notes”, in The Billboard, Nielsen Business Media, Inc., ISSN 0006-2510, Volume 58, Number 37 (1946 September 14), page 82:

     Annual photo contest has brought in some pix by amateurs which are definitely in the professional category.

   • 1978, response to a letter to the editor, in American Motorcyclist, American Motorcyclist Association, ISSN 0277-9358, Volume 32, Number 2 (1978 February), page 4:

     Photo selection can be tricky with space limitations, Arthur, and we blew that one. Hope the Scott pix in our January issue made you feel better about this.

   • 2010, Lynn Powell, Framing Innocence: A Mother’s Photographs, a Prosecutor’s Zeal, and a Small Town’s Response, The New Press, ?ISBN, pages 15–16:

     He nervously wrote down Amy’s instructions for what to say and how to behave if the police came back with a search warrant:

     • […]
     • take pix of damage afterward

2. Specifically, motion pictures; movies.

Etymology 2

A variant of pyx.

Noun

pix (plural pixes)

1. Obsolete spelling of pyx [Late Middle English–19th c.]

Verb

pix (third-person singular simple present pixes, present participle pixing, simple past and past participle pixed)

1. Obsolete spelling of pyx

Ixil

Verb

pix

1. to tie

References

• Dwight David Jewett and Marcos Willis, A' u u' uva'a uva' molel ca ink'a kuyolb'al atz tuch' yolb'al castiiya (Diccionario Ixil de Chajul - Español, Español - Ixil de Chajul) (1996)

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *pik- (“resin”), and/or from the root *peyH- (“fat”). Cognate with Ancient Greek ????? (píssa, “pitch, tar”), Latin p?nus (“pine”). More at pine.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

pix f (genitive picis); third declension

1. pitch, tar

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Derived terms

• piceus
• picula (Late Latin)
  • Dalmatian: pecla
  • Italian: pegola
  • Romanian: p?cur?
  • ?? Slavic: *p?k?l?, *p?c?l?, *p?k?lo (unless inherited from Balto-Slavic) (see there for further descendants)

Descendants

References

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

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from English pick or Bic (a brand of ballpoint pen).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /piks/

Noun

pix n (plural pixuri)

1. ballpoint pen

Declension

References

• pix in DEX online - Dic?ionare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)
• Romanian vocabulary. In: Haspelmath, M. & Tadmor, U. (eds.) World Loanword Database. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.