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English

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Pronunciation

  • enPR: făks, IPA(key): /fæks/
  • Audio (US):(file)
  • Homophone: facts (informal US and Canada pronunciation)
  • Rhymes: -æks

Etymology 1

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”).

Noun

fax (usually uncountable, plural faxes)

  1. (obsolete or UK dialectal) The hair of the head.
Derived terms

Etymology 2

Clipping of facsimile, first attested 1979.

Noun

fax (plural faxes)

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

Verb

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  1. To send a document via a fax machine.
Translations

Czech

Noun

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

Declension

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Dutch

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Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Borrowed from English fax (“a fax machine; to fax”).

Noun

fax m (plural faxen, diminutive faxje n)

  1. fax
Synonyms

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

fax

  1. (deprecated template usage) first-person singular present indicative of faxen
  2. (deprecated template usage) imperative of faxen

Hungarian

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

Noun

fax (plural faxok)

  1. fax

Declension

Inflection (stem in -o-, back harmony)
singular plural
nominative fax faxok
accusative faxot faxokat
dative faxnak faxoknak
instrumental faxszal faxokkal
causal-final faxért faxokért
translative faxszá faxokká
terminative faxig faxokig
essive-formal faxként faxokként
essive-modal — —
inessive faxban faxokban
superessive faxon faxokon
adessive faxnál faxoknál
illative faxba faxokba
sublative faxra faxokra
allative faxhoz faxokhoz
elative faxból faxokból
delative faxról faxokról
ablative faxtól faxoktól
non-attributive
possessive - singular 		faxé faxoké
non-attributive
possessive - plural 		faxéi faxokéi
Possessive forms of fax
possessor single possession multiple possessions
1st person sing. faxom faxaim
2nd person sing. faxod faxaid
3rd person sing. faxa faxai
1st person plural faxunk faxaink
2nd person plural faxotok faxaitok
3rd person plural faxuk faxaik

Derived terms

(Compound words):

References

  1. ^ Tótfalusi, István. Idegenszó-tár: Idegen szavak értelmező és etimológiai szótára (’A Storehouse of Foreign Words: an explanatory and etymological dictionary of foreign words’). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2005. →ISBN

Icelandic

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

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

Noun

fax n (genitive singular fax, nominative plural föx)

  1. mane (of a horse)
Declension
declension of fax
n-s singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative fax faxið föx föxin
accusative fax faxið föx föxin
dative faxi faxinu föxum föxunum
genitive fax faxins faxa faxanna
See also

Etymology 2

From English fax, from facsimile, from Latin.

Noun

fax n (genitive singular fax, nominative plural föx)

  1. fax, telefax (document sent electronically and printed with a fax machine)
Declension
declension of fax
n-s singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative fax faxið föx föxin
accusative fax faxið föx föxin
dative faxi faxinu föxum föxunum
genitive fax faxins faxa faxanna

Latin

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

Noun

fax f (genitive facis); third declension

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

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative fax facēs
Genitive facis facum
Dative facī facibus
Accusative facem facēs
Ablative face facibus
Vocative fax facēs

Derived terms

References

  • “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 with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 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 2, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 495

Norman

Etymology

Borrowed from English fax.

Noun

fax m (plural fax)

  1. (Jersey) fax

Old Norse

Etymology

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(deprecated template usage)

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

Noun

fax n

  1. a mane

Declension

  Declension of fax (strong a-stem)
neuter singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative fax faxit fǫx fǫxin
accusative fax faxit fǫx fǫxin
dative faxi faxinu fǫxum fǫxunum
genitive faxs faxsins faxa faxanna

Descendants

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

References

  • “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 with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 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

Polish

Etymology

Borrowed from English fax.

Pronunciation

Noun

fax m inan

  1. fax

Declension

Declension of fax
singular plural
nominative fax faksy
genitive faksu faksów
dative faksowi faksom
accusative fax faksy
instrumental faksem faksami
locative faksie faksach
vocative faksie faksy

Synonyms

Portuguese

Pronunciation

Noun

fax m (plural es or fax)

  1. fax (document transmitted by telephone)

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from English fax.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈfaɡs/ [ˈfaɣ̞s]

Noun

fax m (plural fax)

  1. fax

Swedish

Pronunciation

Noun

fax c or n

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

Declension

Declension of fax 1
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative fax faxen faxar faxarna
Genitive fax faxens faxars faxarnas
Declension of fax 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative fax faxet fax faxen
Genitive fax faxets fax faxens

Synonyms

References

Zhuang

Etymology

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 (phā), 𑜇𑜨𑜠 (phoa), 𑜇𑜨𑜡 (phoā) or 𑜇𑜞𑜠 (phra).

Pronunciation

Noun

fax (1957–1982 spelling faч)

  1. (dialectal, including Longzhou) sky
    Synonym: mbwn
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