vortex
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Latin vortex. Doublet of vertex.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
vortex (plural vortexes or vortices)
- A whirlwind, whirlpool, or similarly moving matter in the form of a spiral or column.
- 2013 March 1, Frank Fish, George Lauder, “Not Just Going with the Flow”, in American Scientist[1], volume 101, number 2, page 114:
- An extreme version of vorticity is a vortex. The vortex is a spinning, cyclonic mass of fluid, which can be observed in the rotation of water going down a drain, as well as in smoke rings, tornados and hurricanes.
- (figuratively) Anything that involves constant violent or chaotic activity around some centre.
- 2004 August 30, Rebecca Mead, “Flip-Flop Emergency”, in The New Yorker[2], page 38:
- It’s hard to imagine that there is any major American clothing brand that does not have a store in the consumer vortex that is East Hampton; […]
- (figuratively) Anything that inevitably draws surrounding things into its current.
- 1826, [Mary Shelley], chapter 1, in The Last Man. […], volume (please specify |volume=I, II, or III), London: Henry Colburn, […], OCLC 230675575:
- In early youth, the living drama acted around me, drew my heart and soul into its vortex.
- (historical) A supposed collection of particles of very subtle matter, endowed with a rapid rotary motion around an axis which was also the axis of a sun or planet; part of a Cartesian theory accounting for the formation of the universe, and the movements of the bodies composing it.
- (zoology) Any of numerous species of small Turbellaria belonging to Vortex and allied genera.
Derived terms[edit]
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Translations[edit]
whirlpool
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anything involving violent or chaotic activity around some centre
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anything which draws surrounding things
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See also[edit]
Verb[edit]
vortex (third-person singular simple present vortexes, present participle vortexing, simple past and past participle vortexed)
- (chemistry) To mix using a vortex mixer
References[edit]
- vortex in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911
- vortex in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
French[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
vortex m (uncountable)
Further reading[edit]
- “vortex”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Latin[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈu̯or.teks/, [ˈu̯ɔrt̪ɛks̠]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈvor.teks/, [ˈvɔrt̪eks]
Noun[edit]
vortex m (genitive vorticis); third declension
Inflection[edit]
Third-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
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Nominative | vortex | vorticēs |
Genitive | vorticis | vorticum |
Dative | vorticī | vorticibus |
Accusative | vorticem | vorticēs |
Ablative | vortice | vorticibus |
Vocative | vortex | vorticēs |
Descendants[edit]
Descendants of vortex in other languages
References[edit]
- “vortex”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- vortex 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)
- vortex in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
Romanian[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from French vortex or Latin vortex.
Noun[edit]
vortex n (plural vortexuri)
Declension[edit]
Declension of vortex
singular | plural | |||
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indefinite articulation | definite articulation | indefinite articulation | definite articulation | |
nominative/accusative | (un) vortex | vortexul | (niște) vortexuri | vortexurile |
genitive/dative | (unui) vortex | vortexului | (unor) vortexuri | vortexurilor |
vocative | vortexule | vortexurilor |
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