πάξ

Ancient Greek

FWOTD – 5 August 2023

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin pāx! (“peace! quiet! enough talking!”)

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /pǎːks/ → /paks/ → /paks/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /pǎːks/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /paks/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /paks/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /paks/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /paks/

Interjection

πᾱ́ξ! • (pā́x!)

1. enough!, oh!, bah!, good!
   • 342 BCE – 290 BCE, Menander, Epitrepontes 987:

     πάξ. μὴ βλέπ᾿ εἰς τ[ὴν ψάλτριαν

     páx. mḕ blép᾿ eis t[ḕn psáltrian

     Therefore, Halt! No more ogling of the harpist!

   • 300 BCE – 200 BCE, Herodas, 7.114 :

     εἶ σίνος, θῶ μιν. πάξ·

     eî sínos, thô min. páx;

     Give me your foot; slip it in the shoe. Good!

   • 342 BCE – 291 BCE, Diphilus, fragment 96.2

Further reading

• “πάξ”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• πάξ in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• “πάξ”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, 2011