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prex
English
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -?ks
Etymology 1
From US college slang; from 1828.
Noun
prex (plural prexes)
- (US, college slang) A president, especially of a university.
Synonyms
- (president, especially of a university): prexy
Etymology 2
Noun
prex (plural prexes)
- 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
- prayer; request
- 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.
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pyrex
English
Etymology
See Pyrex
Noun
pyrex (uncountable)
- A kind of heat-resistant borosilicate glass, made by mixing a high concentration of boron oxides into the molten glass to reduce its thermal expansion coefficient.
Anagrams
- prexy
Spanish
Noun
pyrex m (plural pyrex)
- pyrex
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