mox

See also: MOX

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *moḱs, whence also Sanskrit मक्षू (makṣū, “fast; early”), Avestan 𐬨𐬊𐬱𐬎 (mošu, “soon, quickly”), Irish moch (“early”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /moks/, [mɔks̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /moks/, [mɔks]

Adverb

mox (not comparable)

1. soon

   Synonyms: properē, raptim, breviter, brevī, repente

   • Vīve! Mox senex eris

     Live! Soon you will be old

2. (soon) afterwards, then
3. as soon as (when followed by ubi, ut or quam)
   • c. 1200, anonymous, Carmina Burana 157.7:

     Mox ut vōcem audiō,
     dēnūdātō gladiō
     lupus immolātur,
     ovis ab exitiō
     redēmpta reportātur.

     As soon as a cry I hear,
     with my dagger drawn
     the wolf is killed,
     and freed from death,
     the sheep brought back (into safety).

References

• “mox”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “mox”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• mox in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Pokorny, Julius (1959) Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), Bern, München: Francke Verlag