prox

See also: prox., Prox, and PROX

English

Etymology

Compare proxy.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pɹɒks/

  • Audio (Southern England)

    (file)

• Rhymes: -ɒks

Noun

prox (plural proxes)

1. (US, Rhode Island) The ticket or list of candidates at elections, presented to the people for their votes.
   • 1841, Report of the select committee [on] the memorial of the democratic members of the Legislature of Rhode Island:

     on the election day at Newport , the ticket containing the names of the general officers has been called “ the prox” of general officers

References

• “prox”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Latin

Alternative forms

• bona prox

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /proks/, [prɔks̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /proks/, [prɔks]

Interjection

prox

1. by your leave

References

• “prox”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• prox in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette