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Ancient Greek
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin pāx! (“peace! quiet! enough talking!”)
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pǎːks/ → /paks/ → /paks/
Interjection
πᾱ́ξ! • (pā́x!)
- enough!
Further reading
- “πάξ”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- πάξ in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- “πάξ”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, 2011