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

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.

   • 1980, Iris Murdoch, Nuns And Soldiers:

     "But it's not much good piling up the pix if I can't sell them."

   • 2010, Lynn Powell, Framing Innocence: A Mother’s Photographs, a Prosecutor’s Zeal, and a Small Town’s Response, The New Press, →ISBN, 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. Alternative form of pyx

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Ixil

Verb

pix

1. to tie

References

• Dwight David Jewett and Marcos Willis, A' u u' uva'a uva' molel ca ink'a kuyolb'al atz tuch' yolb'al castiiya (Diccionario Ixil de Chajul - Español, Español - Ixil de Chajul) (1996)

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Latin

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /piks/, [pɪks̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /piks/, [piks]

Noun

pix f (genitive picis); third declension

1. pitch, tar

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	pix	picēs
Genitive	picis	picum
Dative	picī	picibus
Accusative	picem	picēs
Ablative	pice	picibus
Vocative	pix	picēs

Related terms

• piceus

Descendants

• Albanian: pisë, peshgve
• Dalmatian: pecla
• Dutch: pek
• English: picoline, pitch
• French: poix
• Old High German: peh
  • German: Pech
    • → Dutch: pech
    • → Hungarian: pech
    • → Polish: pech
    • → Serbo-Croatian: pȅh
    • → Slovak: pech
    • → Czech: pech
  • Luxembourgish: Pech

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

References

• “pix”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “pix”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• pix 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)
• pix in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

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Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from English pick or Bic (a brand of ballpoint pen).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /piks/

Noun

pix n (plural pixuri)

1. ballpoint pen

Declension

Declension of pix

	singular		plural
	indefinite articulation	definite articulation	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) pix	pixul	(niște) pixuri	pixurile
genitive/dative	(unui) pix	pixului	(unor) pixuri	pixurilor
vocative	pixule		pixurilor

References

• pix in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)
• Romanian vocabulary. In: Haspelmath, M. & Tadmor, U. (eds.) World Loanword Database. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.