faex
See also: fæx
English
editEtymology
editNoun
editfaex (plural faeces)
- (sciences, uncommon) singular of faeces
- 1924, Bureau of Hygiene and Tropical Diseases, Tropical Diseases Bulletin, volume 21, pages 135, 243:
- In some cases he has identified the plant parasites also in the intestine of insects (Hemiptera and Muscidae) living on the plants and presumably distributing infection either by bite or by faex. […] It gives a concise and coherent general account of the biology, the Protozoa, group by group, as exemplified by representative species and deals in well digested detail, and in their taxonomic setting, with the species found in the intestine and faex and blood and tissues of man
- 1944, Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom, Journal, volume 26, page 201:
- The colour of the faeces presumably depends on that of the sand on which the worm happens to be feeding. It would be difficult to explain the following laboratory observation in any other way. A worm, which was setting up a new head shaft, produced a cylinder consisting of 4 cm. of yellow matter followed by 3 cm. of black, the two separated by a sharp boundary though both forming parts of the same faex.
- 1969, Robert Silverberg, Up the Line, Ballantine Books:
- I, the last of the Ducases, I, the strider across millennia, I, the brilliant Courier in the style of Metaxes, I … I, to these veteran Couriers here, was simply an upright mass of perambulating dreck. A faex that walks like a man. Which is the singular of faeces. Which is to say, a shit.
- 1996, Canadian Journal of Zoology, volume 74, pages 1111, 1115, 1116:
- When > 120 sand eel otoliths were present in a faex, a random subsample of at least 25 % of the total number was measured. […] Table 3. Mean numbers of fish otoliths and cephalopod beaks per faex containing prey (n) for each geographical area (I. Inverness Firth; D. Dornoch Firth; B. Beauly Firth) in summer and winter for those prey species contributing > 3.5 % to the overall diet composition, by mass. […] Table 4. Results of one-way Kruskal – Wallis ANOVAs (df = 3) to test for between-year differences in summer diet composition in 1989 – 1992, measured by numbers of otoliths or beaks per faex (see the text for details).
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editLatin
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editUnknown;[1] possibly borrowed from a substrate language.[2] Unrelated to Proto-Indo-European *dʰrā́ks (“dregs, sediment”).
Pronunciation
edit- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /fae̯ks/, [fäe̯ks̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /feks/, [fɛks]
Noun
editfaex f (genitive faecis); third declension
- (of liquids) sediment, dregs
- salt of tartar
- brine used for pickling
- rouge as makeup
- (figuratively) scum; the dregs of humanity
- (Medieval Latin, brewing) grout (the mixture of malts and other ingredients that make up the grain bill and resulting mash in the brewing process of beer)
Declension
editThird-declension noun.
singular | plural | |
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nominative | faex | faecēs |
genitive | faecis | faecum |
dative | faecī | faecibus |
accusative | faecem | faecēs |
ablative | faece | faecibus |
vocative | faex | faecēs |
Derived terms
editDescendants
editReferences
edit- ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “faex, -cis”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 199
- ^ Schrijver, Peter C. H. (1991) The reflexes of the Proto-Indo-European laryngeals in Latin (Leiden studies in Indo-European; 2), Amsterdam, Atlanta: Rodopi, →ISBN, page 264
- “faex”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “faex”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- faex in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- the dregs of the people: faex populi, plebis, civitatis
- the dregs of the people: faex populi, plebis, civitatis
- Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976) “faex”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden, Boston: E. J. Brill, page 420/2
Zhuang
editEtymology
editFrom Proto-Tai *mwajꟲ (“tree; wood”). Cognate with Thai ไม้ (máai), Northern Thai ᨾᩱ᩶, Lao ໄມ້ (mai), Lü ᦺᦙᧉ (may²), Tai Dam ꪼꪣ꫁, Shan မႆႉ (mâ̰i), Ahom 𑜉𑜩 (may), Nong Zhuang maex, Saek ไม.
Pronunciation
edit- (Standard Zhuang) IPA(key): /fai˦˨/
- Tone numbers: fae4
- Hyphenation: faex
Noun
editfaex (Sawndip forms 𣔉 or 㭑 or 𭩼 or 柫 or 梶 or 枇 or 𣑶 or 棑 or 𬃮 or 費 or 棐 or 𣚡, 1957–1982 spelling fəiч)
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- la:Brewing
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