vortex
English
Etymology
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Pronunciation
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Noun
vortex (plural vortexes or vortices)
- A whirlwind, whirlpool, or similarly moving matter in the form of a spiral or column.
- 2013 March, 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: the consumer vortex that is East Hampton — The New Yorker, 30 August 2004, p.38
- (figuratively) Anything that inevitably draws surrounding things into its current.
- 1826, Mary Shelley, The Last Man, part 2, chapter 1
- In early youth, the living drama acted around me, drew my heart and soul into its vortex.
- 1826, Mary Shelley, The Last Man, part 2, chapter 1
- (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.
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Translations
whirlpool
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anything involving violent or chaotic activity around some centre
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anything which draws surrounding things
See also
References
- “vortex”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
- “vortex”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
French
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Noun
vortex m (uncountable)
Latin
Etymology
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Archaic form of Latin vertex, from vertō.
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈu̯or.teks/, [ˈu̯ɔrt̪ɛks̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈvor.teks/, [ˈvɔrt̪eks]
Noun
vortex m (genitive vorticis); third declension
Declension
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
References
- “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.
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