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Fax

Fax

See also: fax and

German

Noun

Fax n (genitive Fax, plural Faxe)

  1. fax (machine)

Declension

fax

fax

See also: Fax and

English

Noun

fax (usually uncountable, plural faxes)

  1. (obsolete or Britain dialectal) The hair of the head.
Derived terms

Etymology 2

Clipping of facsimile, first attested 1979.

Noun

fax (plural faxes)

  1. A fax machine or a document received and printed by one.
Translations

Verb

fax (third-person singular simple present faxes, present participle faxing, simple past and past participle faxed)

  1. To send a document via a fax machine.
Translations

Czech

Noun

fax m

  1. fax (document)
  2. fax, fax machine

Declension

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Dutch

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: -ɑks

Etymology

From English fax (a fax machine; to fax).

Noun

fax m (plural faxen, diminutive faxje n)

  1. fax

Synonyms

Verb

fax

  1. first-person singular present indicative of faxen
  2. imperative of faxen

Hungarian

Etymology

From English (tele)fax, from facsimile. [1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈfɒks]

Noun

fax (plural faxok)

  1. fax

Declension

Inflection (stem in -o-, back harmony)
singular plural
nominative fax faxok
accusative faxot faxokat
dative faxnak faxoknak
instrumental faxszal faxokkal
causal-final faxért faxokért
translative faxszá faxokká
terminative faxig faxokig
essive-formal faxként faxokként
essive-modal
inessive faxban faxokban
superessive faxon faxokon
adessive faxnál faxoknál
illative faxba faxokba
sublative faxra faxokra
allative faxhoz faxokhoz
elative faxból faxokból
delative faxról faxokról
ablative faxtól faxoktól
Possessive forms of fax
possessor single possession multiple possessions
1st person sing. faxom faxaim
2nd person sing. faxod faxaid
3rd person sing. faxa faxai
1st person plural faxunk faxaink
2nd person plural faxotok faxaitok
3rd person plural faxuk faxaik

Derived terms

(Compound words):

  • faxkészülék
  • faxkezelő
  • faxpapír
  • faxszám
  • faxüzenet

References

  1. Tótfalusi István, Idegenszó-tár: Idegen szavak értelmező és etimológiai szótára. Tinta Könyvkiadó, Budapest, 2005, ISBN 963 7094 20 2

Icelandic

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /faxs/
  • IPA(key): /faks/

Etymology 1

From Old Norse fax (mane) from Proto-Indo-European *poḱ-s-, from *peḱ- (to pluck).

Noun

fax n (genitive singular fax, nominative plural föx)

  1. mane (of a horse)
Declension
See also

Etymology 2

From English fax, from facsimile, from Latin.

Noun

fax n (genitive singular fax, nominative plural föx)

  1. fax, telefax (document sent electronically and printed with a fax machine)
Declension

Latin

Etymology

Some connect this along with faciēs, facētus, focus, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂- (to shine), whence Ancient Greek φαίνω (phaínō, to shine). Weiss instead posits Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰwak-, giving also Lithuanian žvakė (candle).

Pronunciation

Noun

fax f (genitive facis); third declension

  1. torch, firebrand
  2. fireball, comet
  3. cause of ruin, incitement

Inflection

Third declension.

Case Singular Plural
nominative fax facēs
genitive facis facum
dative facī facibus
accusative facem facēs
ablative face facibus
vocative fax facēs

Derived terms

References


Lojban

Rafsi

fax

  1. rafsi of fraxu.

Norman

Etymology

Borrowing from English fax.

Noun

fax m (plural fax)

  1. (Jersey) fax

Old Norse

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *poḱs-, from *peḱ- (to pluck).

Noun

fax n

  1. a mane

Declension

Descendants

References

  • fax in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • fax in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • fax in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • FAX in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
  • fax in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • fax in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

Polish

Etymology

Borrowing from English fax.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [faks]

Noun

fax m inan

  1. fax

Declension

Synonyms


Portuguese

Noun

fax m (plural faxes or fax)

  1. fax (document transmitted by telephone)

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowing from English fax.

Noun

fax m (plural fax)

  1. fax

Swedish

Pronunciation

Noun

fax c, n

  1. a fax (machine) c
  2. a fax (document) n

Declension

Inflection of fax 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative fax faxen faxar faxarna
Genitive fax faxens faxars faxarnas
Inflection of fax 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative fax faxet fax faxen
Genitive fax faxets fax faxens

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