mox
See also: MOX
Latin edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Indo-European *moḱs, whence also Sanskrit मक्षू (makṣū, “fast; early”), Avestan 𐬨𐬊𐬱𐬎 (mošu, “soon, quickly”), Irish moch (“early”).
Pronunciation edit
Adverb edit
mox (not comparable)
- soon
- Vīve! Mox senex eris
- Live! Soon you will be old
- (soon) afterwards, then
- as soon as (when followed by ubi, ut or quam)
- c. 1200, anonymous, Carmina Burana 157.7:
- Mox ut vōcem audiō,
dēnūdātō gladiō
lupus immolātur,
ovis ab exitiō
redēmpta reportātur.
- Mox ut vōcem audiō,
References edit
- “mox”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “mox”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- mox in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Pokorny, Julius (1959) Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), Bern, München: Francke Verlag