redux

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English

Etymology

From Latin redux (“that returns”), from redūcō (“to bring back”). The word may have re-entered popular usage in the United States with the 1971 publication of the novel Rabbit Redux by John Updike,[1][2] although it had previously been used in medicine, literary titles, and product names.

Pronunciation

Adjective

redux (not comparable)

  1. (of a topic, attributive, postpositive) Redone, restored, brought back, or revisited.
    After an unusually cold August, September felt like summer redux as a heatwave sent temperatures soaring.
    • 2004, Robert A. Levy, Shakedown: How Corporations, Government, and Trial Lawyers Abuse the Judicial Process, page 265:
      10. It's Microsoft Redux All Over Again. Maybe the fat lady hasn't crooned the final note, but the petite lady who carried the most weight, US District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly, wrote the denouement to the Microsoft antitrust fiasco.

Translations

Noun

redux (plural reduxes)

  1. A theme or topic redone, restored, brought back, or revisited.
    • 2004, Todd S. Jenkins, Free Jazz and Free Improvisation: An Encyclopedia, page 234:
      With the exception of the leader's boppish title tune, the album is filled with anarchistic jazz reduxes of Nichols, Ellington, Kurt Weill, and Cole Porter.
    • 2021 July 23, Ellie Robinson, “Coldplay shoot for the stars with their cinematic new track ‘Coloratura’”, in NME‎:
      The band chased the video up with an acoustic redux of the track, as well as performances on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon and Macy’s annual Fourth Of July Spectacular in New York.

See also

References

  1. ^ "Redux redux", in The Miami News (12 January 1972).
  2. ^ redux at the Google Books Ngram Viewer.

Further reading

Anagrams

Latin

Alternative forms

Etymology

From redūcō (“to lead or bring back”) +‎ -s.

Pronunciation

  • (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈre.duks/,
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈre.duks/,
  • In normal usage, the e is short: rĕdux. Pre-Classically, however (specifically in Plautus), the first syllable scanned heavy. This can be written with a macron (rēdux), although it is possible the consonant rather than the vowel was long (compare the alternative spelling reddux).

Adjective

redux (genitive reducis); third-declension one-termination adjective

  1. (active voice, mostly as an epithet of Iuppiter and of Fortūna, in the poets and in inscriptions) that leads or brings back, that returns
  2. (passive voice, frequent and Classical Latin) that is led or brought back (from slavery, imprisonment, from a distance, etc.), come back, returned, that has returned

Declension

Third-declension one-termination adjective.

singular plural
masc./fem. neuter masc./fem. neuter
nominative redux reducēs reducia
genitive reducis reducium
dative reducī reducibus
accusative reducem redux reducēs reducia
ablative reducī reducibus
vocative redux reducēs reducia

Descendants

  • → English: redux
  • Italian: reduce

References

  • “rĕdux”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “redux”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • redux 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)
  • rĕdux in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, pages 1,328/1–2.
  • “redux”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • “redux”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray
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