different between pix vs bix

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.

English

Noun

bix pl (plural only)

1. (Britain, informal) biscuits
   • 2000 January 5, "blackbat" <XXXbtinternet.com>, "Re: the spy who loved tea", message-ID <[email protected]>, alt.2eggs.sausage.beans.tomatoes.2toast.largetea.cheerslove, Usenet:

     I was just wondering what everyone else has in their respective Coffee/Tea […]

     please specify what food stuffs that you have been known to dunk.

     very catholic, me - strictly bix only

   • 2003 March 3, Chris Comley <[email protected]>, "Re: Home Highway - ADSL", message-ID <[email protected]>, uk.telecom.broadband, Usenet:

     Make sure you have plenty of tea/coffee and choccy bix on hand when they show up!

   • 2005 September 10, Adrian Bailey <dadgehotmail.com>, "Re: [=SDC=] Q46. A cup of tea's too wet without one....", message-ID <[email protected]>, alt.usage.english, Usenet:

     btw, the bix are Albert (NAITUK), Lincoln, Jammie Dodger, (Jaffa Cake - NAB), Thin Arrowroot, Malted Milk, Nice, Hobnob.

Derived terms

• Weet-Bix
• Weetabix
• Oatibix
• Twix

Bouyei

Etymology

From Proto-Tai *bi?? (“older sibling”). Cognate with Thai ??? (pîi), Northern Thai ???, Lao ??? (ph?), Lü ??? (pii¹), Shan ??? (p?i), Ahom ???????? (pii), Zhuang beix.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pi??/

Noun

bix

1. elder sibling