different between pyx vs pic

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)

1. (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
2. (by extension, rare) A (small) box; a casket, a coffret.

   Synonym: pyxis
3. (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.
4. (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)

1. (obsolete) To place (the host) in a pyx.
2. (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.
3. (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

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p?k/
• Rhymes: -?k

Etymology 1

Clipping of picture

Noun

pic (plural pics or pix)

1. (informal) A picture, especially a photographic image.
2. (informal) A movie.

Etymology 2

Noun

pic (plural pics)

1. A Turkish cloth measure, varying from 18 to 28 inches.

Anagrams

• CIP, CPI, ICP, IPC, P.C.I., PCI, cpi

Albanian

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian pizzo.

Noun

pic m (indefinite plural pica, definite singular pici, definite plural picat)

1. (nonstandard) tip, top, end

Derived terms

References

Catalan

Etymology

From picar.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA^(key): /?pik/
• Rhymes: -ik

Noun

pic m (plural pics)

1. pickaxe
2. peak (of a mountain)
3. peak (moment of maximum intensity)
4. knock, strike, blow
5. prick, sting
6. (typography) dot, bullet
7. (Mallorca) time (occasion)

Synonyms

• (peak): cim, pica
• (strike): cop
• (occasion): vegada
• (dot, prick): punt

Further reading

• “pic” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pik/

Etymology 1

From Vulgar Latin *piccus, from Latin p?cus.

Noun

pic m (plural pics)

1. woodpecker
2. pick (tool)

Derived terms

• pic à glace
• pic vert, pivert

See also

• piquer

Etymology 2

Probably from Spanish pico.

Noun

pic m (plural pics)

1. peak, summit

Derived terms

Further reading

• “pic” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Irish

Etymology

Middle Irish pic, picc, from Latin pix.

Noun

pic f (genitive singular pice)

1. pitch, tar

Declension

Mutation

Further reading

• "pic" in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.

Middle English

Verb

pic

1. Alternative form of piken

Old English

Etymology

From Latin pix.

Noun

pi? n

1. pitch

Declension

Derived terms

• pi?en
• pi?ian

Descendants

• Middle English: picche, piche, pich
  • English: pitch
    • ? Galician: piche
    • ? Portuguese: piche
  • Scots: pick

References

• Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) , “pi?”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Old French

Alternative forms

• pik

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *piccus (“sharp point”)

Noun

pic m (oblique plural pis, nominative singular pis, nominative plural pic)

1. a sharp point or spike.

Descendants

• Middle French: pic
  • French: pic

Polabian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *pe??.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pit?s/

Noun

pic f

1. furnace, oven

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p?it?s/

Noun

pic m inan

1. (colloquial) fib, hoax, lie

   Synonyms: blaga, oszustwo

Declension

Derived terms

• (verb) picowa?
• (nouns) picownik

Further reading

• pic in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
• pic in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Romanian

Etymology

Probably onomatopoetic.

Noun

pic n (plural picuri)

1. a drop (of water)

Derived terms

• pica
• picur
• picura
• pic?tur?

Adverb

pic

1. little (not much)

Synonyms

• oleac? (colloquial)
• ni?el (colloquial)
• ?âr? (colloquial)

Usage notes

• When used as an adverb (in the sense of "little"/"small amount"), pic is always preceded by un, similar to Italian/Spanish un poco, or French un peu.

See also

• pu?in

Scottish Gaelic

Alternative forms

• pìc

Etymology

Borrowed from English pike

Noun

pic f (plural picean)

1. pike, spear
2. pickaxe

Derived terms

• pic-catha

Further reading

• MacBain, Alexander; Mackay, Eneas (1911) , “pic”, in An Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language, Stirling, ?ISBN, page pic

Slovene

Noun

píc

1. genitive plural of pica