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See also: Pax and PAX

English

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

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

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

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

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

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

Etymology

From English Personnel Attached/Available for Exercise.

Noun

pax m (plural [please provide], diminutive [please provide])

  1. (an interchangeable) soldier, private
    Iedere pax een nieuwe helm. ― A new helmet for every pax.

Latin

Etymology

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

    Pronunciation

    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
      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

    Third-declension noun.

    More information singular, plural ...

    Derived terms

    Descendants

    • Eastern Romance:
      • Romanian: pace
    • Gallo-Italic:
      • Emilian:
      • Ligurian:
      • Lombard: paas
      • Piedmontese: pas
      • Romagnol:
    • Gallo-Romance:
    • Ibero-Romance:
    • Italo-Dalmatian:
    • Rhaeto-Romance:
    • Southern Romance:
    • Venetan: paxe
    • Early borrowings:
      • → Albanian: paqe
      • → Basque: bake
      • → Old Irish: póc (see there for further descendants)
    • Modern borrowings:

    Interjection

    pāx

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

    Descendants

    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 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, 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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    Middle English

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    Etymology

    Borrowed from Latin pāx.

    Pronunciation

    Noun

    pax

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

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    Swedish

    Etymology

    Since 1880 from Latin pāx (“peace”).

    Pronunciation

    Interjection

    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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    Yucatec Maya

    Pronunciation

    Verb

    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

    More information singular, plural ...
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