index

See also: Index and índex

For Wiktionary's indexes, see Wiktionary:Index

English

Etymology

From Latin index (“a discoverer, informer, spy; of things, an indicator, the forefinger, a title, superscription”), from indicō (“point out, show”); see indicate.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈɪndɛks/
Audio (US) (file)

Noun

index (plural indexes or indices or (obsolete, in use in the 17th century) index's)

An alphabetical listing of items and their location.
The index of a book lists words or expressions and the pages of the book upon which they are to be found.
The index finger; the forefinger.
Synonyms: see Thesaurus:index finger
A movable finger on a gauge, scale, etc.
(typography) A symbol resembling a pointing hand, used to direct particular attention to a note or paragraph.
Synonym: manicule
That which points out; that which shows, indicates, manifests, or discloses.
- 1731, John Arbuthnot, An Essay Concerning the Nature of Aliments, and the Choice of Them, According to the Different Constitutions of Human Bodies. […], 1st Irish edition, Dublin: […] S. Powell, for George Risk, […], George Ewing, […], and William Smith, […], OCLC 756901661:
  Tastes are the Indexes of the different Qualities of Plants.
A sign; an indication; a token.
- 1887, Robert Louis Stevenson, The Misadventures of John Nicholson
  His son's empty guffaws […] struck him with pain as the indices of a weak mind.
(linguistics) A type of noun where the meaning of the form changes with respect to the context; e.g., 'Today's newspaper' is an indexical form since its referent will differ depending on the context. See also icon and symbol.
(economics) A single number calculated from an array of prices or of quantities.
(sciences) A number representing a property or ratio; a coefficient.
- 1963, Richard Feynman, “Chapter 26, Optics: The Principle of Least Time”, in The Feynman Lectures on Physics, volume I:
  In other words, we predict that the index for a new pair of materials can be obtained from the indexes of the individual materials, both against air or against vacuum.
(mathematics) A raised suffix indicating a power.
(computing, especially programming and databases) An integer or other key indicating the location of data, e.g. within an array, vector, database table, associative array, or hash table.
(computing, databases) A data structure that improves the performance of operations on a table.
(obsolete) A prologue indicating what follows.
- c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act III, scene iv]:
  Ay me, what act, that roars so loud and thunders in the index?

Derived terms

Banzhaf power index
Herfindahl index
h-index
index case
indexic
indexical
indexless
index locorum
index nominum
index rerum
index term
index verborum
ponderal index
price index
Quetelet index
refractive index
Rohrer's index
Törnqvist index
Townsend deprivation index

Related terms

indicate
indication
indicator
indicia

Descendants

⇒ Chinese: 引得 (yǐndé)
→ Japanese: インデックス (indekkusu)

Translations

alphabetical listing of items

Afrikaans: indeks
Albanian: indeks (sq) m
Arabic: دَلِيل‎ (ar) m (dalīl)
Armenian: ինդեքս (hy) (indekʿs)
Basque: indizea
Belarusian: і́ндэкс m (índeks)
Bulgarian: и́ндекс (bg) m (índeks)
Catalan: índex (ca) m
Chinese:
Mandarin: 索引 (zh) (suǒyǐn), 引得 (zh) (yǐndé)
Czech: rejstřík (cs) m, index (cs) m
Danish: indeks n, indholdsfortegnelse (da) c
Dutch: inhoud (nl) m, index (nl) m, register (nl) n
Esperanto: indekso
Finnish: hakemisto (fi)
French: index (fr) m
Galician: índice (gl) m
Georgian: საძიებელი (saʒiebeli)
German: Index (de) m, Verzeichnis (de) n
Greek: κατάλογος (el) m (katálogos), ευρετήριο (el) n (evretírio), πίνακας (el) m (pínakas)
Hebrew: מפתח‎ (he) m (mafteakh)
Hungarian: névmutató (hu), tárgymutató (hu), mutató (hu), jegyzék (hu)
Icelandic: atriðaskrá m, röðunarskrá m, veldisvísir m, vísitala m
Ido: indexo (io)
Irish: innéacs m
Italian: indice (it) m
Japanese: 索引 (ja) (さくいん, sakuin), インデックス (ja) (indekkusu), 表題 (ja) (ひょうだい, hyōdai), 総目録 (そうもくろく, sōmokuroku)
Kannada: ಸೂಚಿ (kn) (sūci)
Korean: 색인(索引) (saegin)
Latin: index c
Lithuanian: indeksas m
Macedonian: индекс m (indeks)
Malay: indeks
Maltese: indiċi (mt)
Maori: tātai pukapuka
Norwegian: innhold m, indeks (no) m, innholdsfortegnelse (no) m, stikkordregister n
Persian: نمایه‎ (fa) (namâye), فهرست‎ (fa) (fehrest), شاخص‎ (fa) (šaxes), نمودار‎ (fa) (nemudâr)
Polish: spis (pl) m, indeks (pl) m, skorowidz (pl) m
Portuguese: índice (pt) m
Romanian: index (ro)
Russian: указа́тель (ru) m (ukazátelʹ), и́ндекс (ru) m (índɛks)
Scottish Gaelic: clàr-amais m
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: ка̀зало n, пока̀затељ m, ѝндекс m
Roman: kàzalo (sh) n, pokàzatelj (sh) m, ìndeks (sh) m
Slovak: index m
Slovene: kazalo n, indeks m, kazalec (sl) m
Spanish: índice (es) m
Swedish: index (sv) n, förteckning (sv) c
Tagalog: talaturuan
Tamil: அட்டவணை (ta) (aṭṭavaṇai)
Telugu: సూచిక (te) (sūcika), విషయ సూచిక (viṣaya sūcika)
Thai: ดัชนี (th) (datchanee)
Turkish: dizin (tr), endeks (tr)
Ukrainian: і́ндекс (uk) m (índeks)
Vietnamese: chỉ số (vi), chỉ mục (vi)
Welsh: dangoseg, ddangoseg, fynegai, mynegai, nangoseg

index finger — see forefinger

movable finger on a gauge, scale, etc.

Finnish: osoitin (fi)

typography: symbol resembling a pointing hand, used to direct attention — see manicule

that which points out; that which shows, indicates, manifests, or discloses

Finnish: merkki (fi), indikaattori (fi)
Maori: kuputohu

sign, indication, token

Azerbaijani: göstərici (az)
Bulgarian: знак (bg) m (znak), показател (bg) m (pokazatel)
Finnish: merkki (fi)
Galician: indicio m
Greek: ένδειξη (el) f (éndeixi)
Russian: показа́тель (ru) m (pokazátelʹ), знак (ru) m (znak)

linguistics: type of noun

Finnish: indeksi (fi)

economics: single number calculated from an array of prices or quantities

Bulgarian: индекс (bg) m (indeks)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 指數／指数 (zh) (zhǐshù)
Czech: index (cs) m
Finnish: indeksi (fi)
French: indice (fr)
Georgian: ინდექსი (indeksi)
Greek: δείκτης (el) m (deíktis)
Hungarian: index (hu)
Italian: indice (it) m
Polish: indeks (pl) m
Russian: и́ндекс (ru) m (índɛks)
Swedish: index (sv) n
Turkish: indeks (tr)

science: number representing a property or ratio

Bulgarian: коефициент m (koeficient)
Finnish: kerroin (fi), indeksi (fi)
Greek: συντελεστής (el) (syntelestís)
Polish: indeks (pl) m
Russian: коэффицие́нт (ru) m (koefficijént)

mathematics: raised suffix indicating a power

Bulgarian: степенен показател m (stepenen pokazatel)
Finnish: eksponentti (fi)
Galician: expoñente m
Greek: εκθέτης (el) m (ekthétis)
Hungarian: kitevő (hu), hatványkitevő (hu)
Polish: indeks (pl) m, wykładnik (pl) m
Portuguese: expoente (pt) m
Russian: показа́тель сте́пени m (pokazátelʹ stépeni)

programming: key indicating location of data

Bulgarian: индекс (bg) m (indeks)
Danish: indeks n
Esperanto: indekso
Finnish: indeksi (fi), paikkanumero (fi), osoitin (fi)
Georgian: ხარისხის მაჩვენებელი (xarisxis mačvenebeli)
Polish: indeks (pl) m
Russian: и́ндекс (ru) m (índɛks)
Swedish: index (sv) n

data structure

Bulgarian: указател (bg) (ukazatel)
Czech: index (cs) m
Esperanto: indekso
Finnish: hakemisto (fi), indeksi (fi)
German: Index (de) m
Russian: и́ндекс (ru) m (índɛks)
Scottish Gaelic: clàr-amais m
Swedish: index (sv) n

prologue — see prologue

References

“index”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1989, →ISBN.

Verb

index (third-person singular simple present indexes, present participle indexing, simple past and past participle indexed)

(transitive) To arrange an index for something, especially a long text.
MySQL does not index short words and common words.
To inventory; to take stock.
(chiefly economics) To normalise in order to account for inflation; to correct for inflation by linking to a price index in order to maintain real levels.
To measure by an associated value.
- 2019 November 21, Samanth Subramanian, “How our home delivery habit reshaped the world”, in The Guardian‎:
  For thousands of years, human progress was indexed to the ease and speed of our mobility: our capacity to walk on two legs, and then to ride on animals, sail on boats, chug across the land and fly through the air, all to procure for ourselves the food and materials we wanted.
(linguistics, transitive) To be indexical for (some situation or state of affairs); to indicate.
- 2008, Haruko Minegishi Cook, Socializing Identities Through Speech Style, page 22:
  For example, the feature I indexes the current speaker in the speech event and you, the current addressee.
(computing) To access a value in a data container by an index.

Derived terms

indexer

Translations

to arrange an index

Bulgarian: индексирам (indeksiram)
Catalan: indexar (ca)
Czech: indexovat
Danish: indeksere
Dutch: indexeren (nl)
Esperanto: indeksi
Finnish: indeksoida (fi)
French: indexer (fr)
German: indizieren (de)
Greek: καταλογογραφώ (el) (katalogografó)
Italian: indicizzare (it)
Polish: indeksować
Portuguese: indexar (pt)
Russian: индекси́ровать (ru) (indeksírovatʹ)
Spanish: indizar (es), indexar (es)
Ukrainian: індексува́ти impf or pf (indeksuváty), проіндексува́ти pf (proindeksuváty)

to take stock — see inventory

Anagrams

nixed, xenid

Czech

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [ˈɪndɛks]
audio (file)

Noun

index m

index (alphabetical listing of items and their location)
(economics) index
index spotřebitelských cen — consumer price index
(computing, databases) index (a data structure that improves the performance of operations on a table)

Synonyms

(alphabetical listing): rejstřík

Related terms

See dikce
indexace
indexový
indexovat
indexování
indicie
indikace
indikátor
indikovat

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch index, from Latin index.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈɪn.dɛks/
Audio (file)
Hyphenation: in‧dex

Noun

index m (plural indexen or indices, diminutive indexje n)

index (list)
index (number or coefficient representing various relations)
(medicine, anatomy) index finger
Synonym: wijsvinger

Derived terms

brekingsindex
prijsindex

Related terms

indexatie
indexeren
indicator
indiceren

Descendants

→ Indonesian: indèks

French

Etymology

From Latin index (“pointer, indicator”), from indicō (“point out, show”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ɛ̃.dɛks/
Audio (file)

Noun

index m (plural index)

index
forefinger
the welcome page of a web site, typically index.html, index.htm or index.php

Derived terms

mettre à l'index

Descendants

→ Turkish: endeks, indeks

Hungarian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin index.[1]

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [ˈindɛks]
Hyphenation: in‧dex
Rhymes: -ɛks

Noun

index (plural indexek)

(automotive) turn signal (US), indicator (UK) (each of the flashing lights on each side of a vehicle which indicate a turn is being made to left or right, or a lane change)
Synonym: irányjelző
pointer, hand, indicator (a needle or dial on a device)
Synonyms: mutató, kar
(higher education) transcript, report card, course report (in higher education)
Synonym: leckekönyv
Coordinate term: (in lower education) ellenőrző
index (an alphabetical listing of items and their location, usually at the end of publications)
Synonyms: névmutató, tárgymutató, szómutató
ban, blacklist (a list of books that was banned)

Declension

Inflection (stem in -e-, front unrounded harmony)
	singular	plural
nominative	index	indexek
accusative	indexet	indexeket
dative	indexnek	indexeknek
instrumental	indexszel	indexekkel
causal-final	indexért	indexekért
translative	indexszé	indexekké
terminative	indexig	indexekig
essive-formal	indexként	indexekként
essive-modal	—	—
inessive	indexben	indexekben
superessive	indexen	indexeken
adessive	indexnél	indexeknél
illative	indexbe	indexekbe
sublative	indexre	indexekre
allative	indexhez	indexekhez
elative	indexből	indexekből
delative	indexről	indexekről
ablative	indextől	indexektől
non-attributive possessive - singular	indexé	indexeké
non-attributive possessive - plural	indexéi	indexekéi

Possessive forms of index
possessor	single possession	multiple possessions
1st person sing.	indexem	indexeim
2nd person sing.	indexed	indexeid
3rd person sing.	indexe	indexei
1st person plural	indexünk	indexeink
2nd person plural	indexetek	indexeitek
3rd person plural	indexük	indexeik

Derived terms

indexel
indexes

Compound words

árindex
indexkép
indexszám
testtömegindex

Expressions

alsó index
felső index

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

Latin

Etymology

From indicō (“point out, indicate, show”), from in (“in, at, on; into”) + dicō (“indicate; dedicate; set apart”).

Pronunciation

(Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈin.deks/, [ˈɪn̪d̪ɛks̠]

(Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈin.deks/, [ˈin̪d̪eks]

Noun

index m or f (genitive indicis); third declension

A pointer, indicator.
The index finger, forefinger.
Synonym: digitus salūtāris
(of books) An index, list, catalogue, table, summary, digest.
(of books) A title, superscription.
A sign, indication, proof, mark, token, index.
Synonyms: signum, indicium
An informer, discoverer, director, talebearer, guide, witness, betrayer, spy.
Synonym: trāditor
(of paintings or statues) An inscription.

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	index	indicēs
Genitive	indicis	indicum
Dative	indicī	indicibus
Accusative	indicem	indicēs
Ablative	indice	indicibus
Vocative	index	indicēs

Derived terms

indicīna
indicium
indiculum

Related terms

indicābilis
indicātiō
indicātīvus
indicātor
indicātūra
indicō

Descendants

Catalan: enze
→ Catalan: índex
→ Czech: index
→ Danish: indeks
→ English: index
- ⇒ Chinese: 引得 (yǐndé)
- → Japanese: インデックス (indekkusu)
→ Esperanto: indekso
→ French: index
- → Turkish: endeks, indeks
Galician: éndez, endego
→ Galician: índice
→ German: Index
→ Hungarian: index
Italian: endice
→ Italian: indice
→ Ladin: indesc
→ Macedonian: индекс (indeks)
→ Middle Dutch: index
- Dutch: index
  - → Indonesian: indèks
→ Norwegian Bokmål: indeks
→ Norwegian Nynorsk: indeks
Old French: enge
- French: enge
- Norman: enge
→ Polish: indeks
→ Portuguese: índex, índice
→ Romanian: index, indice
→ Russian: и́ндекс (índeks)
- → Kazakh: индекс (indeks)
→ Serbo-Croatian: ѝндекс, ìndeks
→ Spanish: índex, índice
→ Swahili: index
→ Ukrainian: і́ндекс (índeks)

References

“index”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“index”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
index 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)
index in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
- the title of a book: index, inscriptio libri
“index”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
“index”, in William Smith, editor (1848) A Dictionary of Greek Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray
“index”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

Romanian

Etymology

From Latin index. Doublet of indice and indiciu.

Noun

index n (plural indexuri)

index

Declension

Declension of index

	singular		plural
	indefinite articulation	definite articulation	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) index	indexul	(niște) indexuri	indexurile
genitive/dative	(unui) index	indexului	(unor) indexuri	indexurilor
vocative	indexule		indexurilor

Swedish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin index.

Noun

index n

index

Declension

Declension of index
	Singular		Plural
	Indefinite	Definite	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	index	indexet	index	indexen
Genitive	index	indexets	index	indexens

Derived terms

aktieindex
brytningsindex
börsindex
indexera
konsumentprisindex

[1] 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

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