English

Adjective

redux ‎(not comparable)

1. (of a topic) Redone, restored, brought back, or revisited.

   Company policy redux.

   Dirty tricks redux.

   • 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.

Usage notes

Redux is always used attributively and after the noun rather than before it.

Translations

See also

• redo
• rediscuss

References

1. ↑ "Redux redux", in The Miami News (12 January 1972).

Anagrams

• Durex

Latin

Alternative forms

• reddux

Etymology

From redūcō ‎(“I lead or bring back”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈre.duks/, [ˈrɛ.dʊks]
• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈreː.duks/, [ˈreː.dʊks]

Adjective

redux or rēdux m, f, n ‎(genitive reducis or rēducis); third declension

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

Declension

• The ablative singular (in all genders) can be rē̆duce or rē̆ducī.

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, 1883–1887)
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “rĕdux”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette, page 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 Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray