πάξ

Ancient Greek

FWOTD – 5 August 2023

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin pāx! (“peace! quiet! enough talking!”)

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /pǎːks/ → /paks/ → /paks/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /pǎːks/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /paks/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /paks/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /paks/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /paks/

Interjection

πᾱ́ξ! • (pā́x!)

1. enough!

Further reading

• “πάξ”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• πάξ in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• πάξ - ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ (since 2011) Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch) University of Chicago.