pax - Wiktionary, the free dictionary (2024)

English[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

• enPR: păks, IPA^(key): /pæks/

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• Rhymes: -æks
• hom*ophone: packs

Etymology 1[edit]

From Middle English pax, from 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.

   • 1599, William Shakespeare, “The Life of Henry the Fift”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies[…] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene vi], page 80, column 2:

     Fortune is Bardolphs foe, and frownes on him: for he hath ſtolne a Pax, and hanged muſt a be: […] Exeter hath giuen the doome of death, for Pax of little price.

2. (Britain, 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.

Interjection[edit]

pax

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

   Synonyms: fainites, (Scotland, obsolete) barlafumble

Translations[edit]

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) A restaurant guest, when counting; person.

   $30 per pax

Derived terms[edit]

• paxhole

Translations[edit]

Anagrams[edit]

• AXP, XAP

Latin[edit]

Etymology[edit]

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

Pronunciation[edit]

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /paːks/, [päːks̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /paks/, [päks]

Noun[edit]

pāxf (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) peace, harmony

   Requiēscat in pāce.

   May he/she rest in peace.

Declension[edit]

Third-declension noun.

Derived terms[edit]

Related terms[edit]

• pacō
• pacīscor
• compecīscor
• compectum
• pācō

Descendants[edit]

Interjection[edit]

pāx

1. enough talking! silence! hush! peace!

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

   • 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.

Descendants[edit]

• → Ancient Greek: πᾱ́ξ! (pā́x!)

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

Middle English[edit]

Alternative forms[edit]

• pakes, paxe, paxse

Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from Latin pāx.

Pronunciation[edit]

• IPA^(key): /paks/

Noun[edit]

pax

1. pax (tablet with carved religious image)

   Synonym: paxbrede

2. (rare) kiss of peace

Related terms[edit]

• paxbrede

Descendants[edit]

• English: pax

References[edit]

• “pax, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Swedish[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Since 1880 from Latin pāx (“peace”).

Pronunciation[edit]

• IPA^(key): /paks/
• hom*ophone: packs

Interjection[edit]

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

Synonyms[edit]

• tjing

Yucatec Maya[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

• IPA^(key): /paʃ/

Verb[edit]

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]

Related terms[edit]

• paax

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