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pyx
English
Etymology
The noun is derived from Late Middle English pix, pixe (“vessel for holding a host, pyx; hip bone socket, pyxis”) [and other forms], from Late Latin pyxis (“vessel for holding a host”), Latin pyxis (“small box for medicines or toiletries; box holding sample coins for testing; hip bone socket; sailor's compass”), from Koine Greek ????? (puxís), Ancient Greek ?????? (puxís, “box; box or tablet made of boxwood; cylinder”), from ?????? (púxos, “box tree; boxwood”) + -?? (-is, suffix forming feminine nouns).
The verb is derived from the noun.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA(key): /p?ks/
- Homophones: picks, pics, pix
- Rhymes: -?ks
Noun
pyx (plural pyxes)
- (Christianity, also figuratively) A small, usually round container used to hold the host (“consecrated bread or wafer of the Eucharist”), especially when bringing communion to the sick or others unable to attend Mass.
- Synonym: (rare) pyxis
- (by extension, rare) A (small) box; a casket, a coffret.
- Synonym: pyxis
- (chiefly Britain) A box used in a mint as a place to deposit sample coins intended to have the fineness of their metal and their weight tested before the coins are issued to the public.
- (nautical, obsolete, rare) A compass used by sailors.
Alternative forms
- pix (obsolete, Late Middle English–19th c.)
Translations
Verb
pyx (third-person singular simple present pyxes, present participle pyxing, simple past and past participle pyxed) (transitive)
- (obsolete) To place (the host) in a pyx.
- (figuratively) To enclose (something) in a box or other container; specifically, to place (a deceased person's body) in a coffin; to coffin, to encoffin.
- (chiefly Britain) To deposit (sample coins) in a pyx; (by extension) to test (such coins) for the fineness of metal and weight before a mint issues them to the public.
Alternative forms
- pix (obsolete)
Derived terms
- pyxed (adjective) (obsolete, rare)
- pyxing (noun)
Notes
References
Further reading
- pyx on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Trial of the Pyx on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
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pax
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
- (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.
- (Britain, dated, school slang) Friendship; truce.
- (Christianity) The kiss of peace.
- (Christianity) A crucifix, a tablet with the image of Christ on the cross upon it, or a reliquary.
Interjection
pax
- (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)
- (informal, usually in the plural) A passenger; passengers.
- (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
- peace
- (poetic) rest, quiet, ease
- (transferred sense) grace (esp. from the gods)
- (transferred sense) leave, good leave (permission)
- (ecclesiastical) peace, harmony
Declension
Third-declension noun.
Derived terms
Related terms
- pac?
- pac?scor
- compec?scor
- compectum
- p?c?
Descendants
Interjection
p?x
- 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
- pax (tablet with carved religious image)
- Synonym: paxbrede
- (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
- (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
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