different between redex vs redux

English

Etymology

From "reducible expression"

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??i?d?ks/

Noun

redex (plural redexes)

1. (mathematics) Something to be reduced according to the rules of a formal system.

See also

• lambda calculus

English

Etymology

From Latin redux (“that returns”), from red?c? (“to bring back”). The word may have re-entered popular usage in the United States with the 1971 publication of the novel Rabbit Redux by John Updike, although it had previously been used in medicine, literary titles, and product names.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??i?d?ks/, /?i?d?ks/

Adjective

redux (not comparable)

1. (of a topic, attributive, postpositive) Redone, restored, brought back, or revisited.
   • 2004, Robert A. Levy, Shakedown: How Corporations, Government, and Trial Lawyers Abuse the Judicial Process, page 265:

     10. It's Microsoft Redux All Over Again. Maybe the fat lady hasn't crooned the final note, but the petite lady who carried the most weight, US District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly, wrote the denouement to the Microsoft antitrust fiasco.

Translations

See also

• redo
• rediscuss

References

Further reading

• redux (literary term) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Durex

Latin

Alternative forms

• reddux

Etymology

From red?c? (“I lead or bring back”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?re.duks/, [?r?d??ks?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?re.duks/, [?r??d?uks]

Adjective

redux (genitive reducis); third-declension one-termination adjective

1. (active, mostly as an epithet of Iuppiter and of Fort?na, in the poets and in inscriptions) that leads or brings back, that returns
2. (passive, frequent and Classical Latin) that is led or brought back (from slavery, imprisonment, from a distance, etc.), come back, returned, that has returned

Usage notes

• In normal usage, the e is short: r?dux. Pre-Classically, however (specifically in Plautus), the e occurred long: r?dux.

Declension

Third-declension one-termination adjective.

• The ablative singular (in all genders) can be reduce or reduc?.

Descendants

• ? English: redux
• Italian: reduce

References

• r?dux in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• redux in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• redux in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• r?dux in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette, page 1,328/1–2
• redux in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• redux in William Smith, editor (1848) A Dictionary of Greek Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray