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pix
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)
- (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
- He nervously wrote down Amy’s instructions for what to say and how to behave if the police came back with a search warrant:
- 1946, “Palisades Notes”, in The Billboard, Nielsen Business Media, Inc., ISSN 0006-2510, Volume 58, Number 37 (1946 September 14), page 82:
- Specifically, motion pictures; movies.
Etymology 2
A variant of pyx.
Noun
pix (plural pixes)
- 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)
- Obsolete spelling of pyx
Ixil
Verb
pix
- 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
- 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)
- 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.
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pfx
English
Noun
pfx
- Abbreviation of prefix.
Related terms
- sfx
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