fax
Translingual
Symbol
fax
See also
English
Pronunciation
- enPR: făks, IPA(key): /fæks/
Audio (US): (file) - Homophone: facts (informal US and Canada pronunciation)
- Rhymes: -æks
Etymology 1
From Middle English fax, from Old English feax (“hair, head of hair”), from Proto-West Germanic *fahs, from Proto-Germanic *fahsą (“hair, mane”), from Proto-Indo-European *poḱsom (“hair”, literally “that which is combed, shorn, or plucked”), from Proto-Indo-European *peḱ- (“to comb, shear, pluck”). Cognate with Dutch vas (“headhair”), German Fachs (“head-hair”), Norwegian faks (“mane”), Icelandic fax (“mane”), Sanskrit पक्ष्मन् (pákṣman, “eyelash, hair, filament”).
Noun
fax (usually uncountable, plural faxes)
Derived terms
Etymology 2
Clipping of facsimile, first attested 1979.
Noun
fax (plural faxes or (rare) faxxes)
- Ellipsis of fax machine: the device for faxing; the medium of communication that it provides.
- OK, now take it down the hall to the fax.
- You can send it via email or fax. You can use an online fax service where you upload a PDF and then send it to a fax number.
- A document sent, or received and printed, by a fax machine.
Derived terms
Descendants
- → Japanese: ファックス
Translations
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Verb
fax (third-person singular simple present faxes or (rare) faxxes, present participle faxing or (rare) faxxing, simple past and past participle faxed or (rare) faxxed)
- To send a document via a fax machine.
- 1990, Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine, volume 14, page 82:
- Hands trembling with excitement and impatience, I faxxed my credit history to Jerry Raskin, the real estate agent listed, and received an appointment to view the place.
- 1991, Jury Verdicts Weekly, volume 35, page 10:
- Plaintiff contented that in a game show in London, England, in January of 1988, Mr. Steinberg entered into an oral agreement with Atari representatives to become the exclusive distributor of Atari Games’ products; that the proposed agreement was dictated at this meeting; and that within two days Mr. Steinberg sent defendant a faxxed confirmation of this oral arrangement reached at the London trade show.
- 1992, Montana National Forest Management Act of 1991: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Public Lands, National Parks and Forests of the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, United States Senate, One Hundred Second Congress, First Session on S. 1696; October 22, 1991, Washington: United States Government Publishing Office, →ISBN, pages 140–141:
- SENATOR BAUCUS, IT IS THE THIRD STATEMENT, YOUR CHALLENGE, THAT HAS LED TO THE MOST FRUSTRATION FOR THE PEOPLE I AM REPRESENTING TODAY. WE TOOK YOU AT YOUR WORD AND HAVE RALLIED AND CONVOYED TO MAKE YOU AWARE OF US, TELEPHONED, WRITTEN LETTERS, FAXXED YOU, AND SPOKE WITH YOU PERSONALLY TO LET YOU KNOW HOW WE FEEL.
- 1993, H. Bruce Franklin, M.I.A., or, Mythmaking in America, revised and expanded paperback edition, New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press, →ISBN, page 194:
- A few of the corporations involved have frankly acknowledged the roadblock: their own fear of the POW/MIA movement. Some companies scheduled for a trade mission to Vietnam dropped out after receiving a faxxed message from the National P.O.W. Strike Force summed up by its leader: “We will go out of our way to destroy your company because you want to do business with filthy Communists who are holding American prisoners.”
- 1993, Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence, Proceedings of the Eleventh National Conference on Artificial Intelligence, →ISBN, page 737, column 1:
- Thanks to Franz Amador and Tony Barrett for helpful discussions. We gratefully acknowledge Oren Etzioni’s emergency faxxing service. This research was funded in part by National Science Foundation Grant IRI-8957302, Office of Naval Research Grant 90-J-1904, and a grant from the Xerox corporation.
- 1994, Olga Elena Mattei, “Part One: Poetry [§] The Angel of the Millennium (Accident at the Nuclear Plant)”, in Roberta Fernández, editor, In Other Words: Literature by Latinas of the United States, Houston, Texas: Arte Público Press, →ISBN, page 139:
- His logistic: to dress in the skin of the worker, / the technician, the programmer, / infiltrating himself in their milieu, / their offices, their plants, & their boards, / a bug in their systems, / crossing up the controls and the panels, / the wiring, the wave lengths, / the faxxing of messages, the spy-satellites / & their receptors, / changing their conceptions, their charts.
- 1995, Lucha Corpi, Cactus Blood: A Mystery Novel, Houston, Texas: Arte Público Press, →ISBN, page 151:
- He already has the copy of the other fingerprints that Leo faxxed to him for comparison.
- 1995 May 17, Ken Luongo, “Comments on GAO Report on CTR Program Concerning MPCA (note to Ken Sanders)”, in Weapons of Mass Destruction: Reducing the Threat From the Former Soviet Union: An Update (United States General Accounting Office, Report to Congressional Requesters), published June 1995, “Background”, page 76:
- On May 12, 1995, Julie Hirshen (GAO) faxxed a draft portion of the GAO Cooperative Threat Reduction report dealing with MPCA.
- 1996, Middle East Peace Process: Hearing Before the Committee on International Relations House of Representatives, One Hundred Fourth Congress, First Session; September 20, 1995, Washington: United States Government Publishing Office, →ISBN, page 25:
- [162] / Faxxing from Israel / 03-695-0132 / [163] / Calling from abroad / 972-3-695-6868 / Faxxing from abroad / 972-3-695-0132
- 1997 May 18, Mike Story, “Confirmed....Pilot Modem Has FAX capability!!”, in alt.comp.sys.palmtops.pilot (Usenet):
- Please advise how one faxxes from the Pilot Pro. Faxxing would greatly enhance my use of the Pilot. / Thanks!
- 1999, Appendix E: Response to Public Comments: Final Environmental Impact Statement For Open Road and Open Motorized Trail Analysis (Motorized Road and Trail Travel Plan):
- Please have Georgia Dixon of Sen Craig’s office have a current copy of the Canadian Endangered Species list faxxed to her from Ottawa, Canada.
Translations
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Etymology 3
Formed with -x from facts; the pronunciation of facts and fax is identical in certain varieties of English.
Noun
fax pl (plural only)
- (informal) Nonstandard form of facts.
- Synonym: trufax
Interjection
fax
- (informal) Alternative form of facts (“used to express agreement”).
- Synonyms: fax, no printer; trufax; tru dat; true dat; true that
See also
Chinese
Etymology
Pronunciation 1
- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)+
- Jyutping: fek1 si2
- Yale: fēk sí
- Cantonese Pinyin: fek7 si2
- Guangdong Romanization: fég1 xi2
- Sinological IPA (key): /fɛːk̚⁵ siː³⁵/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)+
Noun
fax
- (Hong Kong Cantonese) fax (document) (Classifier: 張/张 c; 份 c)
Pronunciation 2
- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)+
- Jyutping: fek1 si2 / fek1
- Yale: fēk sí / fēk
- Cantonese Pinyin: fek7 si2 / fek7
- Guangdong Romanization: fég1 xi2 / fég1
- Sinological IPA (key): /fɛːk̚⁵ siː³⁵/, /fɛːk̚⁵/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)+
Verb
fax
- (Hong Kong Cantonese) to fax
References
Czech
Noun
fax m inan
- fax (document)
- fax, fax machine
Declension
Related terms
Dutch
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
Borrowed from English fax (“a fax machine; to fax”).
Noun
fax m (plural faxen, diminutive faxje n)
Synonyms
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb
fax
- inflection of faxen:
French
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
fax m (plural fax)
- fax
- Synonym: télécopie
- fax machine
- Synonyms: télécopieur, télécopieuse
German
Pronunciation
Audio: (file)
Verb
fax
Hungarian
Etymology
From English (tele)fax, from facsimile. [1]
Pronunciation
Noun
fax (countable and uncountable, plural faxok)
- (historical) the procedure of faxing (sending a document via a fax machine)
- (historical) fax, ellipsis of faxkészülék (“fax machine”)
- (historical) ellipsis of faxüzenet (“fax message/document”)
- (historical) ellipsis of faxszám (“fax number”)
Declension
Inflection (stem in -o-, back harmony) | ||
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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 |
non-attributive possessive - singular |
faxé | faxoké |
non-attributive possessive - plural |
faxéi | faxokéi |
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
References
- ^ Tótfalusi, István. Idegenszó-tár: Idegen szavak értelmező és etimológiai szótára (’A Storehouse of Foreign Words: an explanatory and etymological dictionary of foreign words’). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2005. →ISBN
Further reading
- fax in Nóra Ittzés, editor, A magyar nyelv nagyszótára [A Comprehensive Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (Nszt.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 2006–2031 (work in progress; published a–ez as of 2024).
Icelandic
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
Inherited from Old Norse fax (“mane”).
Noun
fax n (genitive singular fax, nominative plural föx)
- mane (of a horse)
Declension
See also
Etymology 2
Borrowed from English fax, from facsimile, from Latin.
Noun
fax n (genitive singular fax, nominative plural föx)
- fax, telefax (document sent electronically and printed with a fax machine)
- Synonym: símbréf
- fax machine
Declension
Latin
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰweh₂k- (“to shine”). Cognate with facētus, Lithuanian žvakė (“candle”). Compare also Etruscan 𐌚𐌀𐌂𐌄 (face, “torch (?)”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /faks/, [fäks̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /faks/, [fäks]
Noun
fax f (genitive facis); third declension
Declension
Third-declension noun.
singular | plural | |
---|---|---|
nominative | fax | facēs |
genitive | facis | facum |
dative | facī | facibus |
accusative | facem | facēs |
ablative | face | facibus |
vocative | fax | facēs |
Derived terms
See also
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 with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- fax in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “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
- Pokorny, Julius (1959) Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 2, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 495
Middle English
Alternative forms
- væx (early)
Etymology
From Old English feax, from Proto-West Germanic *fahs.
Pronunciation
Noun
fax (plural faxes)
Derived terms
Descendants
References
- “fax, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
Norman
Etymology
Noun
fax m (plural fax)
Old Norse
Etymology
From Proto-Germanic *fahsą, from *peḱ- (“to pluck”).
Noun
fax n
- 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 with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 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
Unadapted borrowing from English fax.
Pronunciation
Noun
fax m inan
Declension
Further reading
- fax in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- fax in Polish dictionaries at PWN
Portuguese
Pronunciation
Noun
fax m (plural faxes)
- fax (document transmitted by telephone)
Romanian
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from English fax.
Noun
fax n (plural faxuri)
Declension
singular | plural | ||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | ||
nominative-accusative | fax | faxul | faxuri | faxurile | |
genitive-dative | fax | faxului | faxuri | faxurilor | |
vocative | faxule | faxurilor |
Spanish
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
fax m (plural fax)
Further reading
- “fax”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28
Anagrams
Swedish
Pronunciation
Noun
fax c or n
- a fax (machine) c
- a fax (document) n
Declension
nominative | genitive | ||
---|---|---|---|
singular | indefinite | fax | fax |
definite | faxen | faxens | |
plural | indefinite | faxar | faxars |
definite | faxarna | faxarnas |
nominative | genitive | ||
---|---|---|---|
singular | indefinite | fax | fax |
definite | faxet | faxets | |
plural | indefinite | fax | fax |
definite | faxen | faxens |
Synonyms
Related terms
References
Zhuang
Etymology
From Proto-Tai *vaːꟲ (“sky; weather”). Cognate with Thai ฟ้า (fáa), Northern Thai ᨼ᩶ᩣ, Lao ຟ້າ (fā), Lü ᦝᦱᧉ (faa²), Shan ၽႃႉ (phâ̰a) or ၾႃႉ (fâ̰a), Ahom 𑜇𑜠 (pha), 𑜇𑜡 (phā), 𑜇𑜨𑜠 (phoa), 𑜇𑜨𑜡 (phoā) or 𑜇𑜞𑜠 (phra).
Pronunciation
- (Standard Zhuang) IPA(key): /fa˦˨/
- Tone numbers: fa4
- Hyphenation: fax
Noun
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- ISO 639-3
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