pax
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Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From Middle English pax and Latin pax (“peace”). Doublet of 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.
- 1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life of Henry the Fift”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene vi], page 80, column 2:
- Fortune is Bardolphs foe, and frownes on him: for he hath ſtolne a Pax, and hanged muſt a be: […] Exeter hath giuen the doome of death, for Pax of little price.
- (British, dated, school slang) Friendship; truce.
- to make pax with someone
- to be good pax (i.e., good friends)
- 1950, C. S. Lewis, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe:
- "I say, Lu! I'm sorry I didn't believe you. I see now you were right all along. Do come out. Make it Pax."
- (Christianity) The kiss of peace.
- (Christianity) A crucifix, a tablet with the image of Christ on the cross upon it, or a reliquary.
- (history) Any of several notable periods of peace in human history, particularly owing to unquestionable hegemony on the model of the Pax Romana.
Interjection
pax
- (UK, dated, school slang) A cry for peace or truce in children's games.
- Synonyms: fainites, (Scotland, obsolete) barlafumble
Translations
Etymology 2
Abbreviation of passenger. X is an abbreviation marker as in DX, TX, Dx, Rx, etc.
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).
- (Malaysia, Singapore, by extension, restaurant industry) A restaurant guest, when counting; person.
- $30 per pax
Derived terms
Translations
Anagrams
Etymology
From Proto-Italic *pāks, Proto-Indo-European *péh₂ḱ-s (“peace”), from the root *peh₂ḱ- (“to join, to attach”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /paːks/, [päːks̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /paks/, [päks]
Noun
pāx f (genitive pācis); third declension
- peace
- Sperō ut pācem habeant semper.
- I hope that they may always have peace.
- Donec, infecta pāce, ad arma desilirent.
- While, as peace was broken, they came down with arms.
- (poetic) rest, quiet, ease
- Synonyms: otium, tranquillitas, serenitas, laxāmentum, quies
- Antonyms: seditio, tumultus, turba, inquies, concursus
- (transferred sense) grace (esp. from the gods)
- (transferred sense) leave, good leave (permission)
- (Ecclesiastical Latin) peace, harmony
- Requiēscat in pāce.
- May he/she rest in peace.
Declension
Third-declension noun.
Derived terms
- pācālis
- pācātē
- pācātiō
- pācātor
- pācātōrius
- pācātum
- pācātus
- pācifer
- pācificō
- pācificus
- pācō
- Pax Assyriaca
- Pax Augusta
- Pax Britannica
- pāx Dei
- Pax Europaea
- Pax Germanica
- Pax Hispanica
- Pax Ottomana
- Pax Praetoriana
- Pax Romana
- Pax Russica
- Pax Sumerica
- Pax Syriana
Related terms
Descendants
- Balkan Romance:
- Romanian: pace
- Gallo-Italic:
- Gallo-Romance:
- Ibero-Romance:
- Italo-Dalmatian:
- Rhaeto-Romance:
- Sardinian:
- Venetan: paxe
- Early borrowings:
- Modern borrowings:
- → Middle English: pax
- English: pax ⇒ paxis
- →⇒ English: Pax Americana, Pax Mongolica, Pax Manjurica, Pax Sinica, Pax Sovietica
- English: pax ⇒ paxis
- → Esperanto: paco
- Ido: paco
- → Swedish: pax
- → Middle English: pax
Interjection
pāx
- enough talking! silence! hush! peace!
- Synonyms: pāx sit rēbus, tacē, tacē tū, fac taceās, dēsine, st, linguae temperā
- 163 BCE, Publius Terentius Afer, Heauton Timorumenos 2.3.49:
- ...capillus passus, prōlixus, circum caput reiectus negligenter; pāx!
- ...her hair loose, long, and thrown back carelessly about her temples. Enough said!
- ...capillus passus, prōlixus, circum caput reiectus negligenter; pāx!
Descendants
- → Ancient Greek: πᾱ́ξ! (pā́x!)
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 with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- pax in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to treat with some one about peace: agere cum aliquo de pace
- to propose terms of peace: pacis condiciones ferre (not proponere)
- to dictate the terms of peace to some one: pacis condiciones dare, dicere alicui (Liv. 29. 12)
- to accept the terms of the peace: pacis condiciones accipere, subire (opp. repudiare, respuere)
- peace is concluded on condition that..: pax convenit in eam condicionem, ut...
- deep peace: summa pax
- allow me to say: pace tua dixerim or dicere liceat
- (ambiguous) to bring about a peace: pacem conciliare (Fam. 10. 27)
- (ambiguous) to make peace with some one: pacem facere cum aliquo
- (ambiguous) to break the peace: pacem dirimere, frangere
- to treat with some one about peace: agere cum aliquo de pace
- “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 and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray
Alternative forms
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
pax
- pax (tablet with carved religious image)
- Synonym: paxbrede
- (rare) kiss of peace
Related terms
Descendants
- English: pax
References
- “pax, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
Etymology
Pronunciation
Interjection
pax
- (childish) 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
Pronunciation
Verb
pax (transitive)
- to play (produce music from a musical instrument)
- 1992, “Apocalipsis 8:6”, in Biblia Maya de Yucatán:
- Le siete ángeloʼob túunoʼ, tiʼ máaxoʼob yaan le siete trompetaoboʼ, tu nuʼucbesajubaʼob u tiʼal u paxicoʼob.
- And the seven angels which had the seven trumpets prepared themselves to sound. (KJV, Revelation 8:6)
Conjugation
| singular | plural | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1st person | 2nd person | 3rd person | 1st person | 2nd person | 3rd person | |
| imperfective | kin paxik | ka paxik | ku paxik | k paxik | ka paxikeʼex | ku paxikoʼob |
| perfective | tin paxaj | ta paxaj | tu paxaj | t k paxaj | ta paxajeʼex | tu paxajoʼob |
| subjunctive | ka in paxej | ka a paxej | ka u paxej | ka k paxej | ka a paxeʼex | ka u paxoʼob |
| imperative | - | paxej | - | - | paxeʼex | - |
conjugation of pax
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