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Latin
Etymology
Probably from appendix (“one who depends on another”), attested as ampedix in Late Latin.
Noun
apodix f (genitive apodixis); third declension (Medieval Latin)
- female companion
- Synonym: socia
c. 890, Abbo Cernuus, translated by Nirmal Dass, Bella Parisiacae urbis, book 3, lines 69–70:Aporiam, sed et atrophiam, patiaris, ut acam / Atervam appodix tua mens sibi congerat eius.- Endure both hardship and poverty so that your soul, which is / Your companion, may gather for itself eternal joy.
- prostitute, courtesan
- Synonyms: meretrīx, scortum
11th century, Vita S. Conwoionis Abbatis Rotonensis, chapter 10:Cumque abisset ad mercatum, subito instigante diabolo reperit eum una apodix, id est meretrix […]- And when he went out to the marketplace, an apodix, that is, a prostitute, incited suddenly by the devil, found him
Declension
Third-declension noun.
References
- "apodix", 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)
- appodix in Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften (1967– ) Mittellateinisches Wörterbuch, Munich: C.H. Beck
- Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976) “apodix”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden, Boston: E. J. Brill, page 49/2