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pax

See also: Pax and PAX

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Etymology 1 edit

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 edit

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. (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."
  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.
  5. (history) Any of several notable periods of peace in human history, particularly owing to unquestionable hegemony on the model of the Pax Romana.

Interjection edit

pax

  1. (UK, dated, school slang) A cry for peace or truce in children's games.
    Synonyms: fainites, (Scotland, obsolete) barlafumble
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Etymology 2 edit

Abbreviation of passenger. X is an abbreviation marker as in DX, TX, Dx, Rx, etc.

Noun edit

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).
  3. (Malaysia, Singapore, by extension, restaurant industry) A restaurant guest, when counting; person.
    $30 per pax
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Etymology edit

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

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Noun edit

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
    Synonyms: otium, tranquillitas, serenitas, laxāmentum, quies
    Antonyms: seditio, tumultus, turba, inquies, concursus
  3. (transferred sense) grace (esp. from the gods)
  4. (transferred sense) leave, good leave (permission)
  5. (Ecclesiastical Latin) peace, harmony
    Requiēscat in pāce.
    May he/she rest in peace.

Declension edit

Third-declension noun.

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

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  • Balkan Romance:
    • Romanian: pace
  • Gallo-Italic:
    • Emilian:
    • Ligurian:
    • Lombard: paas
    • Piedmontese: pas
    • Romagnol:
  • Gallo-Romance:
  • Ibero-Romance:
    • Asturian: paz
    • Mirandese: paç
    • Old Galician-Portuguese: paz
    • Old Spanish: paz
  • Italo-Dalmatian:
  • Rhaeto-Romance:
  • Sardinian:
  • Venetian: paxe
  • Early borrowings:
  • Modern borrowings:

Interjection edit

pāx

  1. enough talking! silence! hush! peace!
    Synonyms: pāx sit rēbus, tacē, tacē tū, fac taceās, dēsine, st, linguae temperā

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References edit

  • “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[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 and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray

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Etymology edit

Borrowed from Latin pāx.

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Noun edit

pax

  1. pax (tablet with carved religious image)
    Synonym: paxbrede
  2. (rare) kiss of peace

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Etymology edit

Since 1880 from Latin pāx (“peace”).

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pax

  1. (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

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pax (transitive)

  1. 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 edit

conjugation of pax
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 -

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