faex

English

Etymology

From Latin faex.

Noun

faex (plural faeces)

(sciences) singular of faeces
- 1924, Bureau of Hygiene and Tropical Diseases, Tropical Diseases Bulletin, volume 21, pages 135, 243:
  In some cases he has identified the plant parasites also in the intestine of insects (Hemiptera and Muscidae) living on the plants and presumably distributing infection either by bite or by faex. […] It gives a concise and coherent general account of the biology, the Protozoa, group by group, as exemplified by representative species and deals in well digested detail, and in their taxonomic setting, with the species found in the intestine and faex and blood and tissues of man
- 1944, Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom, Journal, volume 26, page 201:
  The colour of the faeces presumably depends on that of the sand on which the worm happens to be feeding. It would be difficult to explain the following laboratory observation in any other way. A worm, which was setting up a new head shaft, produced a cylinder consisting of 4 cm. of yellow matter followed by 3 cm. of black, the two separated by a sharp boundary though both forming parts of the same faex.
- 1969, Robert Silverberg, Up the Line, Ballantine Books:
  I, the last of the Ducases, I, the strider across millennia, I, the brilliant Courier in the style of Metaxes, I … I, to these veteran Couriers here, was simply an upright mass of perambulating dreck. A faex that walks like a man. Which is the singular of faeces. Which is to say, a shit.
- 1996, Canadian Journal of Zoology, volume 74, pages 1111, 1115, 1116:
  When > 120 sand eel otoliths were present in a faex, a random subsample of at least 25 % of the total number was measured. […] Table 3. Mean numbers of fish otoliths and cephalopod beaks per faex containing prey (n) for each geographical area (I. Inverness Firth; D. Dornoch Firth; B. Beauly Firth) in summer and winter for those prey species contributing > 3.5 % to the overall diet composition, by mass. […] Table 4. Results of one-way Kruskal – Wallis ANOVAs (df = 3) to test for between-year differences in summer diet composition in 1989 – 1992, measured by numbers of otoliths or beaks per faex (see the text for details).

Anagrams

Faxe, e-fax

Latin

Alternative forms

fēx

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *faiks, from earlier *fraiks, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰrā́ks (“dregs, sediment”).

Pronunciation

(Classical) IPA^(key): /fae̯ks/, [fäe̯ks̠]

(Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /feks/, [fɛks]

Noun

faex f (genitive faecis); third declension

(of liquids) sediment, dregs
salt of tartar
brine used for pickling
rouge as makeup
(figuratively) scum; the dregs of humanity
(Medieval Latin, brewing) grout (the mixture of malts and other ingredients that make up the grain bill and resulting mash in the brewing process of beer)

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	faex	faecēs
Genitive	faecis	faecum
Dative	faecī	faecibus
Accusative	faecem	faecēs
Ablative	faece	faecibus
Vocative	faex	faecēs

Derived terms

dēfaecō
faecula

Descendants

Dutch: feces (with plural: de feces zijn), fecaliën
English: faeces, feces, faex
French: fèces
German: Fäkalien
Italian: feci
Portuguese: fez, fezes
Sardinian: feche, feghe, fexa, fexi
Spanish: hez, heces
Swedish: fekalier

References

“faex”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“faex”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
faex in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
- the dregs of the people: faex populi, plebis, civitatis
Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976), “faex”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden, Boston: E. J. Brill, page 420/2

Zhuang

Etymology

From Proto-Tai *mwajꟲ (“tree; wood”). Cognate with Thai ไม้ (máai), Northern Thai ᨾᩱ᩶, Lao ໄມ້ (mai), Lü ᦺᦙᧉ (may²), Tai Dam ꪼꪣ꫁, Shan မႆႉ (mâ̰i), Ahom 𑜉𑜩 (may), Nong Zhuang maex, Saek ไม.

Pronunciation

(Standard Zhuang) IPA^(key): /fai˦˨/

Tone numbers: fae⁴

Hyphenation: faex

Noun

faex (Sawndip forms 𣔉 or 㭑 or 𭩼 or 柫 or 梶 or 枇 or 𣑶 or 棑 or 𬃮 or 費 or 棐 or 𣚡, 1957–1982 spelling fəiч)

tree
wood; lumber
rod; stick
casket; coffin

Derived terms

faexcuk
faexndoek
faexraq
faexsamoeg
faexsaux
faexset
faexsouh
ndoengfaex