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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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pyn
English
Noun
pyn
- Obsolete form of pin (mood).
- 1533, R. Saltwood:
- As plesaunt to the ere as the blacke sanctus
Of a sad sorte vpon a mery pyn.
- As plesaunt to the ere as the blacke sanctus
- 1533, R. Saltwood:
Afrikaans
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /p?in/
Etymology 1
From Dutch pijn, from Middle Dutch pine, from Latin poena, from Ancient Greek ????? (poin?).
Noun
pyn (plural pyne)
- pain
Etymology 2
From Dutch pijn, from Latin p?nus
Noun
pyn (plural pyne)
- pine
Synonyms
- den
Scanian
Etymology
Cognate with Westrobothnian pjun n (“id.”)
Noun
pyn n
- Stickleback, a small fish.
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