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English

Etymology

From Latin vortex.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?v??t?ks/
• (US)

Noun

vortex (plural vortexes or vortices)

1. A whirlwind, whirlpool, or similarly moving matter in the form of a spiral or column.
2. (figuratively) Anything that involves constant violent or chaotic activity around some centre.
   • 2004: the consumer vortex that is East Hampton — The New Yorker, 30 August 2004, p.38
3. (figuratively) Anything that inevitably draws surrounding things into its current.
   • 1826, Mary Shelley, The Last Man, part 2, chapter 1

     In early youth, the living drama acted around me, drew my heart and soul into its vortex.

4. (historical) A supposed collection of particles of very subtle matter, endowed with a rapid rotary motion around an axis which was also the axis of a sun or planet; part of a Cartesian theory accounting for the formation of the universe, and the movements of the bodies composing it.
5. (zoology) Any of numerous species of small Turbellaria belonging to Vortex and allied genera.

Derived terms

Related terms

• vortical
• vorticity

Translations

See also

• eddy
• ley line
• maelstrom

References

• vortex in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• vortex in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

French

Etymology

From Latin vortex

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /v??.t?ks/

Noun

vortex m (uncountable)

1. vortex

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?u?or.teks/, [?u??rt??ks?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?vor.teks/, [?v?rt??ks]

Noun

vortex m (genitive vorticis); third declension

1. Archaic form of vertex.

Inflection

Third-declension noun.

Descendants

References

• vortex in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• vortex in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• vortex in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

English

Alternative forms

• vortexes

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?v??.t?.si?z/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?v??.t?.siz/

Noun

vortices

1. plural of vortex

Anagrams

• evictors

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?u?or.ti.ke?s/, [?u??rt??ke?s?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?vor.ti.t??es/, [?v?rt?it???s]

Noun

vortic?s

1. nominative plural of vortex
2. accusative plural of vortex
3. vocative plural of vortex