appendix
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- (UK, US) enPR: ə-pĕn'dĭks, IPA(key): /əˈpɛn.dɪks/
- (pin–pen merger) IPA(key): /əˈpɪn.dɪks/
Audio (US): (file)
Noun
[edit]appendix (plural appendices or appendixes)
- (obsolete in general sense) Something attached to something else; an attachment or accompaniment.
- Synonyms: addition, addendum, attachment; see also Thesaurus:adjunct
- Near-synonyms: ancillary, auxiliary
- 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC:, vol.I, New York 2001, p.244:
- idleness is an appendix to nobility; they count it a disgrace to work, and spend all their days in sports, recreations, and pastimes […]
- A text added to the end of a book or an article, containing additional information.
- Holonym: back matter
- Coordinate terms: afterword, epilogue, postscript
- Near-synonyms: supplement (sometimes synonymous), addendum
- (anatomy) The vermiform appendix.
- (anatomy) Any process, prolongation, or projection.
- Synonym: appendage
Usage notes
[edit]Both plural forms are found in various major dictionaries:
Dictionary or usage guide | Entry | Notes |
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Merriam-Webster Unabridged online | "appendixes or appendices" | No other qualification |
Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary online | "appendixes or appendices" | No other qualification |
Merriam-Webster’s Medical Dictionary online | "appendixes or appendices" | No other qualification |
Stedman's Medical Dictionary online | "appendixes or appendices" | No other qualification |
Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary, 32nd edition | "appendixes or appendices" | No other qualification |
American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language online | "appendices or appendixes" | No other qualification |
Garner's Modern English Usage, fourth edition | "appendixes; appendices" | "Both are correct plural forms for appendix, but appendixes is preferable outside scientific contexts […] Nevertheless, the nonnative plural is more frequent [per Google Books Ngram data] by a 3-to-1 margin." |
OxfordDictionaries.com, UK subset | "appendixes or appendices" | "Appendix typically has the plural appendixes in the anatomical sense, and appendices when referring to a part of a book or document." |
Derived terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]text added to the end of a book or an article
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vermiform appendix — see vermiform appendix
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Dutch
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]appendix f (plural appendices)
- an appendix, a section appended to the main body of a text or publication with peripheral information
- Synonym: aanhangsel
- a vermiform appendix
- Synonym: wormvormig aanhangsel
- the appendix of a balloon
- Synonyms: vulaanhangsel, vulslurf
Derived terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- → Indonesian: apendiks
Latin
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From appendō (“hang upon”) + -ix.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /apˈpen.diks/, [äpˈpɛn̪d̪ɪks̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /apˈpen.diks/, [äpˈpɛn̪d̪iks]
Noun
[edit]appendix f (genitive appendicis); third declension
- supplement, addition
- appendage
- barberry (shrub)
Declension
[edit]Third-declension noun.
singular | plural | |
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nominative | appendix | appendicēs |
genitive | appendicis | appendicum |
dative | appendicī | appendicibus |
accusative | appendicem | appendicēs |
ablative | appendice | appendicibus |
vocative | appendix | appendicēs |
Related terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]References
[edit]- “appendix”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “appendix”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- appendix 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)
- appendix in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
Polish
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Unadapted borrowing from Latin appendix.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]appendix m inan
- (rare) appendix (any addition, particularly to a book)
- Synonyms: aneks, dodatek, uzupełnienie, załącznik
Declension
[edit]Declension of appendix
singular | plural | |
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nominative | appendix | appendiksy |
genitive | appendiksu | appendiksów |
dative | appendiksowi | appendiksom |
accusative | appendix | appendiksy |
instrumental | appendiksem | appendiksami |
locative | appendiksie | appendiksach |
vocative | appendiksie | appendiksy |
Further reading
[edit]- appendix in Polish dictionaries at PWN
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