redux
English
Etymology
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From Latin redux (“that returns”), from redūcō (“to bring back”). The word may have re-entered popular usage in the United States with the 1971 publication of the novel Rabbit Redux by John Updike,[1][2] although it had previously been used in medicine, literary titles, and product names.
Pronunciation
Adjective
redux (not comparable)
- (of a topic, attributive, postpositive) Redone, restored, brought back, or revisited.
- After an unusually cold August, September felt like summer redux as a heatwave sent temperatures soaring.
- 2004, Robert A. Levy, Shakedown: How Corporations, Government, and Trial Lawyers Abuse the Judicial Process, page 265:
- 10. It's Microsoft Redux All Over Again. Maybe the fat lady hasn't crooned the final note, but the petite lady who carried the most weight, US District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly, wrote the denouement to the Microsoft antitrust fiasco.
Translations
redone, restored, brought back, or revisited
See also
References
- ^ "Redux redux", in The Miami News (12 January 1972).
- ^ redux at Google Ngram Viewer
Further reading
redux (literary term) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Anagrams
Latin
Alternative forms
Etymology
From redūcō (“I lead or bring back”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈre.duks/, [ˈrɛd̪ʊks̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈre.duks/, [ˈrɛːd̪uks]
Adjective
redux (genitive reducis); third-declension one-termination adjective
- (active voice, mostly as an epithet of Iuppiter and of Fortūna, in the poets and in inscriptions) that leads or brings back, that returns
- (passive voice, frequent and Classical Latin) that is led or brought back (from slavery, imprisonment, from a distance, etc.), come back, returned, that has returned
Usage notes
- In normal usage, the e is short: rĕdux. Pre-Classically, however (specifically in Plautus), the e occurred long: rēdux.
Declension
Third-declension one-termination adjective.
Number | Singular | Plural | |||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Case / Gender | Masc./Fem. | Neuter | Masc./Fem. | Neuter | |
Nominative | redux | reducēs | reducia | ||
Genitive | reducis | reducium | |||
Dative | reducī | reducibus | |||
Accusative | reducem | redux | reducēs | reducia | |
Ablative | reducī | reducibus | |||
Vocative | redux | reducēs | reducia |
Descendants
References
- “rĕdux”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “redux”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- redux 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)
- rĕdux in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, pages 1,328/1–2.
- “redux”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “redux”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray
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