fax

Pronunciation

• enPR: făks, IPA^(key): /fæks/

• Audio (US)

  (file)

• Homophone: facts (informal US and Canada pronunciation)
• Rhymes: -æks

Etymology 1

From Middle English fax, from Old English feax (“hair, head of hair”), from Proto-Germanic *fahsą (“hair, mane”), from Proto-Indo-European *poḱs- (“hair”, literally “that which is combed, shorn, or plucked”), from Proto-Indo-European *peḱ- (“to comb, shear, pluck”). Cognate with Dutch vas (“headhair”), German Fachs (“head-hair”), Norwegian faks (“mane”), Icelandic fax (“mane”), Sanskrit पक्ष्मन् (pakṣman, “eyelash, hair, filament”).

Etymology 2

Clipping of facsimile, first attested 1979.

Noun

fax m

1. fax (document)
2. fax, fax machine

Etymology

From English fax (“a fax machine; to fax”).

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɑks

• Audio

  (file)

Noun

fax m (plural faxen, diminutive faxje n)

1. fax

Verb

fax

1. first-person singular present indicative of faxen
2. imperative of faxen

Etymology

From English (tele)fax, from facsimile. ^[1]

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈfɒks]

Noun

fax (plural faxok)

1. fax

References

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /faxs/
• IPA^(key): /faks/

Etymology 1

From Old Norse fax (“mane”) from Proto-Indo-European *poḱ-s-, from *peḱ- (“to pluck”).

Etymology 2

From English fax, from facsimile, from Latin.

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *ǵʷʰeh₂k- (“to shine”). Cognate with facētus, Lithuanian žvakė (“candle”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /faks/

Noun

fax f (genitive facis); third declension

1. torch, firebrand
2. fireball, comet
3. cause of ruin, incitement

References

• fax in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• fax in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• fax in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• fax in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• fax in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• fax in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• fax in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
• Pokorny, Julius (1959) Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume II, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 495

Etymology

Borrowed from English fax.

Noun

fax m (plural fax)

1. (Jersey) fax

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *fahsą, from *peḱ- (“to pluck”).

Noun

fax n

1. a mane

References

• fax in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• fax in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• fax in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• fax in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• fax in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• fax in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

Etymology

Borrowed from English fax.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [faks]

Noun

fax m inan

1. fax

Noun

fax m (plural faxes or fax)

1. fax (document transmitted by telephone)

Etymology

Borrowed from English fax.

Noun

fax m (plural fax)

1. fax

Pronunciation

• Homophone: facks

Noun

fax c, n

1. a fax (machine) c
2. a fax (document) n

References

• fax in Svenska Akademiens Ordlista över svenska språket (13th ed., online)

Etymology

From Proto-Tai *vaːᶜ (“sky; weather”). Cognate with Thai ฟ้า (fáa), Northern Thai ᨼ᩶ᩣ, Lao ຟ້າ (fā), Lü ᦝᦱᧉ (faa²), Shan ၽႃႉ (phâ̰a) or ၾႃႉ (fâ̰a), Ahom 𑜇𑜠 (pha), 𑜇𑜡 (phaa), 𑜇𑜨𑜠 (phoa), 𑜇𑜨𑜡 (phoaa) or 𑜇𑜞𑜠 (phra).

Noun

fax (old orthography faч, Sawndip forms 𭱇, 𫯨, 𪥉)

1. (dialectal, including Longzhou) sky

   Synonym: mbwn