mox

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mox

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Clipping of moxie.

mox (countable and uncountable, plural moxes or moxen)

(slang, uncountable) Energy, vigor, courage, pluck.
(fantasy, roleplaying games, video games, countable) A gemstone with magical properties.
- 1999 January, The Duelist (magazine), volume 6, number 1, page 103:
  WE MADE IT UP
  The word "mox" was derived from the English slang term "moxie." In case you didn't know, "moxie" has long been associated with energy and vigor. The origin of this word traces back to the early 1930s, when America's most popular soft drink was called Moxie.

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

mox (not comparable)

soon
Synonyms: properē, raptim, breviter, brevī, repente
- Vīve! Mox senex eris
  Live! Soon you will be old
(soon) afterwards, then
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).

“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