Pax

Noun

 * 1) A painted, stamped or carved tablet with a representation of Christ or the Virgin Mary, which was kissed by the priest during the Mass ("kiss of peace") and then passed to other officiating clergy and the congregation to be kissed. See also osculatory.
 * 2)  passenger; passengers

Thesaurus
Agnus Dei, Holy Grail, Host, Pieta, Sanctus bell, Sangraal, accord, agape, ark, asperger, asperges, aspergillum, aspersion, auricular confession, bambino, bar mitzvah, bas mitzvah, beadroll, beads, candle, celebration, censer, cessation of combat, chaplet, ciborium, circumcision, confession, confirmation, cross, crucifix, cruet, eucharistial, exemption from hostilities, freedom from war, harmony, high celebration, holy cross, holy water, holy-water sprinkler, icon, incense, incensory, invocation, invocation of saints, kiss of peace, lesser litany, liberty in tranquillity, litany, love feast, lustration, matzo, menorah, mezuzah, mikvah, monstrance, osculatory, ostensorium, paschal candle, peace, peacetime, phylacteries, prayer shawl, prayer wheel, processional, pyx, reciting the rosary, relics, rood, rosary, sacramental, sacred relics, sacring bell, shofar, sukkah, tabernacle, tallith, telling of beads, the confessional, the confessionary, thurible, urceole, veronica, vigil light, votive candle

Pronunciation

 * ,, {{SAMPA|/p{ks/}}

Anagrams

 * AXP

Noun

 * 1) peace
 * Spero ut pacem habeant semper.
 * I hope that they may always have peace.
 * Donec, infecta pace, ad arma desilirent.
 * While at length the peace being broken off, the came to strive and fight with arms.''
 * 1) harmony

Derived terms

 * pācālis
 * pācifer
 * pācificō


 * pācificus
 * pācō
 * pāx Dei

Related terms

 * pācātē
 * pācātiō
 * pācātor
 * pācātōrius
 * pācātum


 * pācātus
 * pācificātiō
 * pācificātor
 * pācificātōrius
 * pācificē

Descendants

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 * English: ,
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 * French:
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 * Romanian:
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 * Spanish:
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Interjection

 * 1) silence! be silent! hush!
 * 2) * c. 254-184 , Plautus, Miles Gloriosus, 3.1.213
 * Pax! Abi!
 * Hush! Be off!
 * 1) * c. 195-159 , Publius Terentius Afer, Heauton Timorumenos, 2.3.49
 * Capillus passus, prolixus, circum caput reiectus negligenter; pax.
 * Her hair was loose, long, and thrown back negligently about her temples. Do you hold your peace.
 * 1) * c. 254-184 , Plautus, Trinummus, 4.2.46
 * Pax, id est nomen mihi; hoc cottidianus.
 * Hush, that's my name; my everyday name.

Interjection
pax


 * 1)  dibs (to claim a stake to something); used as a noun with the verbs få “get, receive” and ha “have”, or as a verb; att paxa.
 * Pax för soffan! - “I have (first) dibs on the sofa!”
 * Jag fick pax på framsätet! - “I got dibs on shotgun!”
 * Jag har paxat fåtöljen - I "have dibbed" the armchair

Etymology
Since 1880 from pax:.

Synonyms

 * tjing