annex

See also: Annex

English

Alternative forms

• annexe (UK)
• anex (nonstandard)

Etymology 1

Borrowed from French annexe, from Latin annexus. More at Etymology 2. See also an-.

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /ˈænɛks/

• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -ɛks

Noun

annex (plural annexes) (American spelling)

1. An addition, an extension.
   • 1949, World Health Organization, Report on the 1st- Session May 10-15‎^[1], page 19:

     6.2.3.2.2. For aircraft having pressurized cabins, the disinsection of cabins and annexes, cockpit and annexes, is to be carried out after the embarkation of passengers and crew and the closing of the doors and windscreen[.]

2. An appendix to a book or document.
3. An addition or extension to a building.
4. An addition to the territory of a country or state, from a neighboring country or state, normally by military force.

Synonyms

• (something additional): addition, supplement; See also Thesaurus:adjunct or Thesaurus:augmentation

Derived terms

• granny annexe

Translations

addition, an extension — see also attachment

• Bulgarian: приба́вка (bg) f (pribávka), допълне́ние (bg) n (dopălnénie)
• Catalan: annex (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

• Danish: bilag
• Dutch: bijlage (nl) f
• Esperanto: alaĵo, aneksaĵo
• Estonian: lisa
• Finnish: lisäys (fi), laajennus (fi)
• French: annexe (fr)
• German: Anhang (de) m, Zusatz (de) m, Erweiterung (de) f, Annex (de) m, Ergänzung (de) f, Beilage (de) f, Beiheft (de) n
• Greenlandic: bilagi
• Hungarian: függelék (hu)
• Japanese: 付加物 (fukabutsu), 付属 (ja) (fuzoku)
• Macedonian: дополну́вање n (dopolnúvanje), дополне́ние n (dopolnénie)
• Malayalam: അനുബന്ധം (ml) (anubandhaṁ)
• Norwegian: anneks (no)
• Occitan: annèx (oc) m, annèxe (oc) m
• Persian: ضمیمه (fa) (zamime)
• Polish: aneks (pl) m
• Portuguese: anexo (pt) m
• Russian: приба́вка (ru) f (pribávka), дополне́ние (ru) n (dopolnénije)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: а̀некс m

  Latin: àneks (sh) m

• Spanish: anexo (es) m, anejo (es) m
• Swedish: annex (sv), tillägg (sv), bilaga (sv)

appendix — see also adjunct,‎ appendix

• Bulgarian: приложе́ние (bg) n (priložénie)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

• Dutch: aanhangsel (nl) n
• Esperanto: alaĵo, aneksaĵo, anekso
• Finnish: liite (fi)
• German: Anhang (de) m, Ergänzung (de) f, Zusatz (de), Nachtrag (de) m, Anhängsel (de) n, Appendix (de) m, Annex (de) m, Fortsatz (de) m
• Japanese: 付録 (ja) (furoku)
• Malayalam: അനുബന്ധം (ml) (anubandhaṁ)
• Polish: aneks (pl) m
• Portuguese: anexo (pt) m
• Russian: приложе́ние (ru) n (priložénije)
• Spanish: apéndice (es) m, extensión (es) f, anexo (es) m, anejo (es) m
• Swedish: appendix (sv), tillägg (sv), bilaga (sv)

addition or extension to a building

• Bulgarian: пристро́йка (bg) f (pristrójka)
• Catalan: annex (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

• Dutch: uitbouw (nl) m
• Esperanto: aneksaĵo
• Finnish: lisärakennus (fi), siipi (fi)
• French: annexe (fr) f
• German: Nebengebäude (de) n, Anbau (de) n, Erweiterung (de) f, Zubau (de) m, Seitengebäude (de) n, Erweiterungsbau m, Nebenflügel m, Seitenflügel (de) m
• Japanese: 別館 (ja) (べっかん, bekkan), 増築 (ja) (ぞうちく, zouchiku)
• Polish: aneks (pl) m
• Portuguese: anexo (pt) m, puxadinho m (colloquial)
• Russian: пристро́йка (ru) f (pristrójka), фли́гель (ru) m (flígelʹ), крыло́ (ru) n (kryló)
• Scottish Gaelic: ath-thaigh m
• Spanish: anexo (es) m, pabellón (es) m, anejo (es) m
• Swedish: annex (sv), tillbyggnad, flygel (sv)

addition of territory — see annexation

Etymology 2

From Middle English annexen, anexen, from Old French annexer (“to join”), from Medieval Latin annexāre, infinitive of annexō, frequentative of Latin annectō (“bind to”), from ad (“to”) + nectō (“tie, bind”). Compare the rare annect. Doublet of adnex.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈænɛks/
• (US) IPA^(key): /əˈnɛks/, /ˈænɛks/

• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -ɛks

Verb

annex (third-person singular simple present annexes, present participle annexing, simple past and past participle annexed)

1. To add something to another thing, especially territory; to incorporate.

   The ancient city of Petra was annexed by Rome.

   • 2009, Wikipedia:Syngman Rhee:

     In 1910, he returned to Korea, which had by this time been annexed by Japan.

2. To attach or connect, as a consequence, condition, etc.

   to annex a penalty to a prohibition, or punishment to guilt

   Annexed to my feeling of guilt was a sense of having let my familiy down.

   • 1793, John Horne Tooke, The Constitution of England:

     Under Edward the Second, the Commons began to annex petitions to the bills by which they granted subsidies

3. (intransitive) To join; to be united.
4. To take something without permission (informal)

   I returned to resume my place but my assistant had already annexed my chair.

Synonyms

• underjoin

Antonyms

• separate

Derived terms

• annexable
• annexation
• annexational
• annexationism
• annexationist
• annexment
• annexure
• disannex
• nonannexed
• reannex
• unannexed

Related terms

• adnexa

Translations

to add something to another, to incorporate into

• Afrikaans: annekseer
• Albanian: please add this translation if you can
• Armenian: please add this translation if you can
• Belarusian: анексі́раваць impf or pf (anjeksíravacʹ), анексава́ць impf or pf (anjeksavácʹ), анэксава́ць impf or pf (aneksavácʹ), далуча́ць impf (dalučácʹ), далучы́ць pf (dalučýcʹ)
• Bulgarian: присъединя́вам (bg) impf (prisăedinjávam), присъединя́ pf (prisăedinjá), анекси́рам (bg) impf or pf (aneksíram)
• Catalan: annexar (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 併吞 / 并吞 (zh) (bìngtūn), 吞併 / 吞并 (zh) (tūnbìng), 兼併 / 兼并 (zh) (jiānbìng)

• Czech: anektovat impf or pf, připojit (cs) pf
• Danish: annektere (da)
• Dutch: annexeren (nl), inlijven (nl)
• Esperanto: aneksi
• Estonian: annekteerima
• Finnish: liittää (fi)
• French: annexer (fr)
• Georgian: please add this translation if you can
• German: annektieren (de), beifügen (de), anfügen (de), anhängen (de), angliedern (de), einverleiben (de), anheften (de), sich aneignen (de), sich einverleiben (de), aneignen (de)
• Hungarian: hozzácsatol (hu), annektál (hu)
• Japanese: 組み入れる (くみいれる, kumiireru), 編入する (ja) (へんにゅうする, hennyū suru), 併合する (ja) (へいごうする, heigō suru)
• Korean: 병합하다 (byeonghaphada)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: خستنە سەر (xistne ser)

• Latvian: anektēt
• Lithuanian: aneksuoti
• Macedonian: анекти́ра impf or pf (anektíra)
• Māori: taunaha, āpiti
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: annektere (no)

• Occitan: annexar (oc)
• Polish: anektować (pl) impf or pf, zaanektować (pl) pf
• Portuguese: anexar (pt)
• Romanian: a anexa (ro)
• Russian: аннекси́ровать (ru) impf or pf (annɛksírovatʹ), присоединя́ть (ru) impf (prisojedinjátʹ), присоедини́ть (ru) pf (prisojedinítʹ)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: анекти́рати impf or pf, припа́јати impf, припо̀јити pf

  Latin: anektírati (sh) impf or pf, pripájati (sh) impf, pripòjiti (sh) pf

• Slovak: anektovať impf or pf, pripojiť pf
• Slovene: anektirati impf or pf
• Spanish: anexar (es), anexionar (es), anejar (es)
• Swedish: införliva (sv), annektera (sv)
• Turkish: katmak (tr), eklemek (tr), bağlamak (tr), ilhak etmek (tr)
• Ukrainian: анексува́ти (uk) impf or pf (aneksuváty), приє́днувати impf (pryjédnuvaty), приєдна́ти pf (pryjednáty)

See also

• merge
• fuse
• add

Anagrams

• xenna-

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin annexus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Northern) [ənˈne̞ks]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic, Central) [ənˈnɛks]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [aˈnɛks]
• IPA^(key): (Northwestern) [anˈnɛks]

• Audio (Barcelona):

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Noun

annex m (plural annexos)

1. annex (an addition, an extension)
2. annex (an addition to a building)

Derived terms

• annexar

Adjective

annex (feminine annexa, masculine plural annexos, feminine plural annexes)

1. attached (of a document)

Further reading

• “annex”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007

Swedish

Noun

annex n

1. annex (an addition to a building)
2. annex (an addition, an extension)

Declension

Declension of annex

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	annex	annex
	definite	annexet	annexets
plural	indefinite	annex	annex
	definite	annexen	annexens