fax

• enPR: făks, IPA^(key): /fæks/

• Audio (US)

  (file)

• Homophone: facts (informal US and Canada pronunciation)
• Rhymes: -æks

From Middle English fax, from Old English feax (“hair, head of hair”), from Proto-Germanic *fahsą (“hair, mane”), from Proto-Indo-European *poḱsom (“hair”, literally “that which is combed, shorn, or plucked”), from Proto-Indo-European *peḱ- (“to comb, shear, pluck”). Cognate with Dutch vas (“headhair”), German Fachs (“head-hair”), Norwegian faks (“mane”), Icelandic fax (“mane”), Sanskrit पक्ष्मन् (pákṣman, “eyelash, hair, filament”).

fax (usually uncountable, plural faxes)

1. (obsolete or Britain dialectal) The hair of the head.

• faxed
• Fairfax
• Halifax

Clipping of facsimile, first attested 1979.

fax (plural faxes)

1. A fax machine or a document received and printed by one.

fax (third-person singular simple present faxes, present participle faxing, simple past and past participle faxed)

1. To send a document via a fax machine.

fax m

1. fax (document)
2. fax, fax machine

• faxovat

From English fax (“a fax machine; to fax”).

• Rhymes: -ɑks

• Audio

  (file)

fax m (plural faxen, diminutive faxje n)

1. fax

• telefacsimile
• telefax

fax

1. first-person singular present indicative of faxen
2. imperative of faxen

From English (tele)fax, from facsimile. [1]

• IPA^(key): [ˈfɒks]

fax (plural faxok)

1. fax

• faxol

(Compound words):

• faxkészülék
• faxkezelő
• faxpapír
• faxszám
• faxüzenet

• IPA^(key): /faxs/
• IPA^(key): /faks/

From Old Norse fax (“mane”) from Proto-Indo-European *poḱ-s-, from *peḱ- (“to pluck”).

fax n (genitive singular fax, nominative plural föx)

1. mane (of a horse)

• makki

From English fax, from facsimile, from Latin.

fax n (genitive singular fax, nominative plural föx)

1. fax, telefax (document sent electronically and printed with a fax machine)

From Proto-Indo-European *ǵʷʰeh₂k- (“to shine”). Cognate with facētus, Lithuanian žvakė (“candle”).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /faks/

fax f (genitive facis); third declension

1. torch, firebrand
2. fireball, comet
3. cause of ruin, incitement

Third declension.

• facula

• fax in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• fax in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• fax in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• fax in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• fax in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• fax in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• fax in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
• Pokorny, Julius (1959) Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume II, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 495

Borrowed from English fax.

fax m (plural fax)

1. (Jersey) fax

From Proto-Germanic *fahsą, from *peḱ- (“to pluck”).

fax n

1. a mane

• Faroese: faks
• Icelandic: fax
• Norwegian: faks

• fax in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• fax in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• fax in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• fax in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• fax in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• fax in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

Borrowed from English fax.

• IPA^(key): /faks/

fax m inan

1. fax

• faks, telefaks, telefax

• Audio

  (file)

fax m (plural faxes or fax)

1. fax (document transmitted by telephone)

Borrowed from English fax.

• IPA^(key): /faks/

fax m (plural fax)

1. fax

• Homophone: facks

fax c or n

1. a fax (machine) c
2. a fax (document) n

• telefax

• fax in Svenska Akademiens ordlista över svenska språket (13th ed., online)

From Proto-Tai *vaːᶜ (“sky; weather”). Cognate with Thai ฟ้า (fáa), Northern Thai ᨼ᩶ᩣ, Lao ຟ້າ (fā), Lü ᦝᦱᧉ (faa²), Shan ၽႃႉ (phâ̰a) or ၾႃႉ (fâ̰a), Ahom 𑜇𑜠 (pha), 𑜇𑜡 (phaa), 𑜇𑜨𑜠 (phoa), 𑜇𑜨𑜡 (phoaa) or 𑜇𑜞𑜠 (phra).

• (Standard Zhuang) IPA^(key): /fa˦˨/
• Tone numbers: fa⁴
• Hyphenation: fax

fax (old orthography faч, Sawndip forms 𭱇, 𫯨, 𪥉)

1. (dialectal, including Longzhou) sky

   Synonym: mbwn