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English

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Etymology

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From Latin index (“a discoverer, informer, spy; of things, an indicator, the forefinger, a title, superscription”), from indicō (“point out, show”); see indicate.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈɪndɛks/
  • Audio (US):(file)

Noun

index (plural indexes or indices)

  1. An alphabetical listing of items and their location.
    The index of a book lists words or expressions and the pages of the book upon which they are to be found.
  2. The index finger; the forefinger.
  3. A movable finger on a gauge, scale, etc.
  4. (printing) A symbol resembling a pointing hand, used to direct particular attention to a note or paragraph.
  5. That which points out; that which shows, indicates, manifests, or discloses.
    • (Can we date this quote by Arbuthnot and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
      Tastes are the indexes of the different qualities of plants.
  6. A sign; an indication; a token.
    • (Can we date this quote by Robert Louis Stevenson and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
      His son's empty guffaws […] struck him with pain as the indices of a weak mind.
  7. (linguistics) A type of noun where the meaning of the form changes with respect to the context. E.g., 'Today's newspaper' is an indexical form since its referent will differ depending on the context. See also icon and symbol.
  8. (economics) A single number calculated from an array of prices or of quantities.
  9. (sciences) A number representing a property or ratio, a coefficient.
  10. (mathematics) A raised suffix indicating a power.
  11. (computing, especially programming and databases) An integer or other key indicating the location of data e.g. within an array, vector, database table, associative array, or hash table.
  12. (computing, databases) A data structure that improves the performance of operations on a table.
  13. (obsolete) A prologue indicating what follows.
    • (Can we date this quote by Shakespeare and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?), Hamlet, III, 4
      Ay me, what act, that roars so loud and thunders in the index?

Synonyms

Derived terms

Translations

index finger — see forefinger

See also

References

Verb

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  1. (transitive) To arrange an index for something, especially a long text.
  2. To inventory, to take stock.
  3. This term needs a definition. Please help out and add a definition, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.
    • 2019 November 21, Samanth Subramanian, “How our home delivery habit reshaped the world”, in The Guardian‎[1]:
      For thousands of years, human progress was indexed to the ease and speed of our mobility: our capacity to walk on two legs, and then to ride on animals, sail on boats, chug across the land and fly through the air, all to procure for ourselves the food and materials we wanted.
  4. (linguistics, transitive) To be indexical for (some situation or state of affairs); to indicate.
    • 2008, Haruko Minegishi Cook, Socializing Identities Through Speech Style, page 22:
      For example, the feature I indexes the current speaker in the speech event and you, the current addressee.

Derived terms

Translations

to take stock — see inventory

Further reading

Anagrams

Czech

Pronunciation

Noun

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  1. index (alphabetical listing of items and their location)
  2. (economics) index
    index spotřebitelských cen — consumer price index
  3. (computing, databases) index (a data structure that improves the performance of operations on a table)

Synonyms

Further reading

Dutch

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Pronunciation

Noun

index m (plural indexen or indices, diminutive indexje n)

  1. index

Derived terms

French

Etymology

From Latin index (“pointer, indicator”), from indicō (“point out, show”).

Pronunciation

Noun

index m (plural index)

  1. index
  2. forefinger
  3. The welcome page of a web site, typically index.html, index.htm or index.php

Further reading

Hungarian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin index.[1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈindɛks]
  • Hyphenation: in‧dex

Noun

index (plural indexek)

  1. (automotive) turn signal (US), indicator (UK) (each of the flashing lights on each side of a vehicle which indicate a turn is being made to left or right, or a lane change)
    Synonym: irányjelző
  2. pointer, hand, indicator (a needle or dial on a device)
    Synonyms: mutató, kar
  3. (education) report card, course report (in higher education)
    Synonym: leckekönyv
  4. index (an alphabetical listing of items and their location, usually at the end of publications)
    Synonyms: névmutató, tárgymutató, szómutató
  5. ban, blacklist (a list of books that was banned)

Declension

Inflection (stem in -e-, front unrounded harmony)
singular plural
nominative index indexek
accusative indexet indexeket
dative indexnek indexeknek
instrumental indexszel indexekkel
causal-final indexért indexekért
translative indexszé indexekké
terminative indexig indexekig
essive-formal indexként indexekként
essive-modal — —
inessive indexben indexekben
superessive indexen indexeken
adessive indexnél indexeknél
illative indexbe indexekbe
sublative indexre indexekre
allative indexhez indexekhez
elative indexből indexekből
delative indexről indexekről
ablative indextől indexektől
non-attributive
possessive - singular 		indexé indexeké
non-attributive
possessive - plural 		indexéi indexekéi
Possessive forms of index
possessor single possession multiple possessions
1st person sing. indexem indexeim
2nd person sing. indexed indexeid
3rd person sing. indexe indexei
1st person plural indexünk indexeink
2nd person plural indexetek indexeitek
3rd person plural indexük indexeik

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

Further reading

  • index in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh: A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (’An Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN

Latin

Etymology

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From indicō (“point out, indicate, show”), from in (“in, at, on; into”) + dicō (“indicate; dedicate; set apart”).

Pronunciation

Noun

index m or f (genitive indicis); third declension

  1. A pointer, indicator.
  2. The index finger, forefinger.
    Synonym: digitus salūtāris
  3. A sign, indication, proof, mark, token, index.
  4. An informer, discoverer, director, talebearer, guide, witness, betrayer, spy.
  5. (of books) A title, superscription.
  6. (of books) An index, catalogue, table, list, summary, digest.
  7. (of paintings or statues) An inscription.

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative index indicēs
Genitive indicis indicum
Dative indicī indicibus
Accusative indicem indicēs
Ablative indice indicibus
Vocative index indicēs

Derived terms

Descendants

References

  • “index”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “index”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • index 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)
  • index in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎[2], London: Macmillan and Co.
    • the title of a book: index, inscriptio libri
  • “index”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • “index”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray
  • “index”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

Swedish

Noun

index n

  1. an index

Declension

Declension of index 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative index indexet index indexen
Genitive index indexets index indexens
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