different between prex vs plex

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -?ks

Etymology 1

From US college slang; from 1828.

Noun

prex (plural prexes)

1. (US, college slang) A president, especially of a university.

Synonyms

• (president, especially of a university): prexy

Etymology 2

Noun

prex (plural prexes)

1. Prefix.

References

Anagrams

• XPer

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *pre?- (“to request, ask”).

Pronunciation

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

Noun

prex f (genitive precis); third declension

1. prayer; request
2. entreaty

Declension

• The nominative singular, prex, and genitive singular, precis, are unattested in Classical Latin.

Third-declension noun.

Derived terms

• prec?rius
• precor

Related terms

• proc?
• procor
• proc?x

Descendants

• Portuguese: prece
• English: prayer

References

• prex in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• prex in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• prex in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• prex in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book?^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.

English

Noun

plex (plural plexes)

1. (Canada) A building, such as a duplex or triplex, with a number of apartments (typically two to four) that all open directly to the outside.
   • 2001, Thomas F. McIlwraith, Edward K. Muller, North America: The Historical Geography of a Changing Continent (page 457)

     Most new housing has taken the form of single-family dwellings, not plexes, and levels of home ownership have risen steadily.

   • 2004, Richard Harris, Creeping Conformity: How Canada Became Suburban, 1900-1960 (page 34)

     English-style terraced houses or the cheaper type of Montreal plexes that opened directly onto the street made such a way of life possible, but just barely.

2. (computing) A designated portion of a disk, usually set up to mirror some of the contents.
   • 2002, Paul Massiglia, Highly Available Storage for Windows Servers (page 60)

     Striped volumes of mirrored plexes can survive failure of up to half of their disks.

3. Clipping of multiplex.