pix

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pɪks/
• Rhymes: -ɪks
• Homophones: pics, picks, pyx

Etymology 1

First attested 1932, abbreviation of pictures, first used in Variety magazine, along with other similar words that the magazine calls slanguage [1].

Noun

pix (plural only)

1. (informal) Plural form of pic in the sense of "picture".
   • 1946, “Palisades Notes”, in The Billboard, Nielsen Business Media, Inc., ISSN 0006-2510, Volume 58, Number 37 (1946 September 14), page 82:

     Annual photo contest has brought in some pix by amateurs which are definitely in the professional category.

   • 1978, response to a letter to the editor, in American Motorcyclist, American Motorcyclist Association, ISSN 0277-9358, Volume 32, Number 2 (1978 February), page 4:

     Photo selection can be tricky with space limitations, Arthur, and we blew that one. Hope the Scott pix in our January issue made you feel better about this.

   • 2010, Lynn Powell, Framing Innocence: A Mother’s Photographs, a Prosecutor’s Zeal, and a Small Town’s Response, The New Press, ISBN 978-1-59558-551-6, pages 15–16:

     He nervously wrote down Amy’s instructions for what to say and how to behave if the police came back with a search warrant:

     • […]
     • take pix of damage afterward

2. Specifically, motion pictures; movies.

Etymology 2

Noun

pix (plural pixes)

1. A variant of pyx

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Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *pik- (“resin”), from Proto-Indo-European *pi- (“sap, juice”). Cognate with Ancient Greek πίσσα (píssa, “pitch, tar”), Lithuanian pikis (“pitch”), Latin pīnus (“pine”). More at pine.

Noun

pix f (genitive picis); third declension

1. pitch, tar

Inflection

Third declension.

Number	Singular	Plural
nominative	pix	picēs
genitive	picis	picum
dative	picī	picibus
accusative	picem	picēs
ablative	pice	picibus
vocative	pix	picēs

Related terms

• piceus

Descendants

• Dalmatian: pecla
• Dutch: pek
• English: picolinew, pitch
• French: poix
• German: Peche

• Italian: pece, pegola
• Japanese: ペンキ
• Portuguese: pez
• Romanian: păcură
• Spanish: pez

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Rafsi

pix

1. rafsi of pinxe.