pax

See also: Pax

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: păks, IPA^(key): /pæks/

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• Homophone: packs

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin pax (“peace”). See peace. As school slang, originally used at Winchester College, Hampshire in the United Kingdom.

Noun

pax

1. (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.
2. (Britain, dated, school slang) Friendship; truce.

   to make pax with someone

   to be good pax (i.e. good friends)

3. (Christianity) The kiss of peace.
4. (Christianity) A crucifix, a tablet with the image of Christ on the cross upon it, or a reliquary.

Interjection

pax

1. (Britain, dated, school slang) A cry for peace or truce in children's games.

Translations

cry for truce in games

• French: pouce (fr) m

Etymology 2

Abbreviation of passenger. X is an abbreviation marker as in DX, TX and canx.

Noun

pax (plural pax)

1. (informal, usually in the plural) A passenger; passengers.
2. (informal, usually in the plural, by extension, hospitality industry) A guest (at an event or function).

Translations

passenger; passengers

• French: pax (fr)

• German: Pax (de)
• Swedish: pax (sv) c

Anagrams

• AXP, XAP

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Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *pāks, Proto-Indo-European *péh₂ḱ-s (“peace”), from the root *peh₂ḱ- (“to join, to attach”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /paːks/, [paːks̠]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /paks/

Noun

pāx f (genitive pācis); third declension

1. 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.

2. (poetic) rest, quiet, ease
3. (transferred sense) grace (esp. from the gods)
4. (transferred sense) leave, good leave (permission)
5. (ecclesiastical) peace, harmony

   Requiēscat in pāce.

   May he/she rest in peace.

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	pāx	pācēs
Genitive	pācis	pācum
Dative	pācī	pācibus
Accusative	pācem	pācēs
Ablative	pāce	pācibus
Vocative	pāx	pācēs

Derived terms

• pācālis
• pācātē
• pācātiō
• pācātor
• pācātōrius
• pācātum

• pācātus
• pācifer
• pācificus
• pācō
• pāx Dei

Related terms

• pacō
• pacīscor
• compecīscor
• compectum
• pācō

Descendants

• → Albanian: paqe
• Aragonese: paz
• Asturian: paz
• → Basque: bake
• Catalan: pau
• Corsican: patz
• → English: pax, paxis
• → Esperanto: paco
• Friulian: pâs
• → Ido: paco
• → Irish: póg
• Italian: pace

• Ladin: pesc
• Lombard: paas
• Mirandese: paç
• Mozarabic: פּאצ׳ה‎, بّاجَّا‎ (pače)
• Occitan: patz
• Old French: pais
  • → English: peace
  • French: paix
  • Walloon: påye
• Old Portuguese: paz
  • Galician: paz
  • Portuguese: paz
• Romanian: pace
• Romansch: pasch, pesch
• Sardinian: pache, paghe
• Sicilian: paci
  • → Maltese: paċi
• Spanish: paz
• → Swedish: pax
• Venetian: paxe

Interjection

pāx

1. enough talking! silence! hush! peace!
   • c. 206 BCE, Plautus, Miles gloriosus 3.1.213:

     Pāx! Abī!

     Hush! Go away!

   • 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!

   • c. 195 BCE, Plautus, Trinummus 4.2.46:

     Pāx, id est nōmen mihī - hoc cottīdiānum est.

     Hush, that's my name - that's for everyday use.

   Synonyms: pāx sit rēbus, tacē, tacē tū, fac taceās, dēsine, st, linguae temperā!

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, 1883–1887)
• pax in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], 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
    
• 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 Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray

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Swedish

Etymology

Since 1880 from Latin pāx (“peace”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /paks/
• Homophone: packs

Interjection

pax

1. (children’s language) 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

• tjing