pax

• enPR: păks, IPA^(key): /pæks/
• Homophone: packs

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

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.

pax

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

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

pax (plural pax)

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

• AXP, XAP

From Proto-Indo-European *peh₂ḱ-. See related terms.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /paːks/
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /paks/

pāx f (genitive pācis); third declension

1. peace

   Spero ut pācem habeant semper.

   I hope that they may always have peace.

   Donec, infecta pāce, ad arma desilirent.

   While at length the peace being broken off, they came to strive and fight with arms.

2. harmony

Third declension.

pāx

1. silence! be silent! hush!
   • c. 254-184 BCE, Plautus, Miles Gloriosus, 3.1.213

     Pax! Abi!

     Hush! Be off!

   • c. 195-159 BCE, Publius Terentius Afer, Heauton Timorumenos, 2.3.49

     Capillus passus, prolixus, circum caput reiectus negligenter; pax.

     Her hair was loose, long, and thrown back negligently about her temples. Do you hold your peace.

   • c. 254-184 BCE, Plautus, Trinummus, 4.2.46

     Pax, id est nomen mihi; hoc cottidianus.

     Hush, that's my name; my everyday name.

• 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, 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

Since 1880 from Latin pāx (“peace”).

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

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

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