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English
Verb
elix (third-person singular simple present elixes, present participle elixing, simple past and past participle elixed)
- (obsolete, transitive) To draw out or extract.
c. 1599 (date written), I. M. [i.e., John Marston], The History of Antonio and Mellida. The First Part. , London: for Mathewe Lownes, and Thomas Fisher, , published 1602, →OCLC, (please specify the page):O that our muse / Had those abstruse and sinewy faculties / That with a strain of fresh invention / She might press out the rarity of art, / The pur'st elixed juice of rich conceit, / In your attentive ears, that with the lip / Of gracious elocution we might drink / A sound carouse unto your health of wit.
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Latin
Etymology
From ēliciō (“elicit, draw out”) + -s, from ē- + laciō; alternatively suggested to be a derivative of liqueō.[1]
Pronunciation
Noun
ēlix f (genitive ēlicis); third declension
- (chiefly in the plural) drainage ditch
Declension
Third-declension noun.
References
- ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “laciō, -ere”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 321-322
- “elix”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- elix in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “elix”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- elix 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)