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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]pollex(pluralpollices)
- Thethumb;thefirst,orpreaxial,digitof theforelimb,corresponding to thehalluxin thehindlimb.In birds, the pollex is thejointwhich bears thealulaorbastard wing.
- 1955,Vladimir Nabokov,Lolita:
- We came to know the curious roadside species, Hitchhiking Man,Homopollexof science, with all its many sub-species and forms.
Derived terms
[edit]See also
[edit]References
[edit]- “pollex”,inWebster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary,Springfield, Mass.:G. & C. Merriam,1913,→OCLC.
Latin
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Of uncertain origin.
Traditionally connected toProto-Slavic*palьcь(“thumb”),with contamination fromLatinpolleō(“to be strong”)(hencepollex,not*pōlex). However, de Vaan is unconvinced, and instead prefersMeier-Brügger's derivation from aProto-Italic*por-likʰ-s(“which is licked over”),fromProto-Indo-European*per-(“through”)+*leyǵʰ-(“to lick”),with the second syllable in the nominative singular becoming-lexbased on the model of other body parts, such asvortex(“whirl; top of the head”)inflecting with-ex.[1]
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin)IPA(key):/ˈpol.leks/,[ˈpɔlːʲɛks̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical)IPA(key):/ˈpol.leks/,[ˈpɔlːeks]
Noun
[edit]pollexm(genitivepollicis);third declension
- thumb
- greattoe
- aunitofdistance,equivalenttoapproximately24.6mm;oneuncia(see also:Ancient Roman units of measurement)
- seal(insignia)
Declension
[edit]Third-declensionnoun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | pollex | pollicēs |
Genitive | pollicis | pollicum |
Dative | pollicī | pollicibus |
Accusative | pollicem | pollicēs |
Ablative | pollice | pollicibus |
Vocative | pollex | pollicēs |
Derived terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- Catalan:polze
- French:pouce⇒poucier
- →Sicilian:puseri
- Italian:pollice
- Occitan:poce
- Piedmontese:pòle
- Romansch:polesch,polisch,polsch
- Sardinian:póddiche,póddighe(“finger”)
- →Czech:pólech
- →English:pollex⇒pollical
- →Esperanto:polekso
- →Greek:πόλεξ(pólex)
- →Portuguese:pólex,pólice
- →Romanian:police
- →Spanish:pólice
References
[edit]- “pollex”,inCharlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879)A Latin Dictionary,Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “pollex”,inCharlton T. Lewis (1891)An Elementary Latin Dictionary,New York: Harper & Brothers
- pollexin Charles du Fresne du Cange’sGlossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis(augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- “pollex”,inWilliam Smith, editor (1848),A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology,London: John Murray
- Meyer-Lübke, Wilhelm(1911) “pŏllen”, inRomanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch(in German),page497
- ^De Vaan, Michiel(2008) “pollex”, inEtymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages(Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill,→ISBN,page478
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