redux

redux

English

Etymology

From Latin redux (“that returns”), from redūcō (“to bring back”). The word may have re-entered popular usage in the United States with the 1971 publication of the novel Rabbit Redux by John Updike,[1][2] although it had previously been used in medicine, literary titles, and product names.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɹiːdʌks/, /ɹiˈdʌks/

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• Rhymes: -ʌks

Adjective

redux (not comparable)

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

   After an unusually cold August, September felt like summer redux as a heatwave sent temperatures soaring.

   • 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.

Translations

redone, restored, brought back, or revisited

Chinese: Mandarin: 回歸／回归 (zh) (huíguī) Dutch: terug van weggeweest Finnish: palautettu (fi), tehty uudelleen; expressed in Finnish with a different part of speech such as uudelleen (fi) ("[all over] again"), [jonkin] paluu ("the return of [something]") French: de retour (fr) Portuguese: revisto Russian: верну́вшийся (ru) (vernúvšijsja) Spanish: repetido (es), revisto (es)

Noun

redux (plural reduxes)

1. A theme or topic redone, restored, brought back, or revisited.
   • 2004, Todd S. Jenkins, Free Jazz and Free Improvisation: An Encyclopedia (page 234)

     With the exception of the leader's boppish title tune, the album is filled with anarchistic jazz reduxes of Nichols, Ellington, Kurt Weill, and Cole Porter.

See also

• redo
• rediscuss
• redox

References

1. "Redux redux", in The Miami News (12 January 1972).
2. redux at Google Ngram Viewer

Further reading

• redux (literary term) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Durex

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Latin

Alternative forms

• reddux

Etymology

From redūcō (“I lead or bring back”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈre.duks/, [ˈrɛd̪ʊks̠]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈre.duks/, [ˈrɛːd̪uks]

Adjective

redux (genitive reducis); third-declension one-termination adjective

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 Latin) that is led or brought back (from slavery, imprisonment, from a distance, etc.), come back, returned, that has returned

Usage notes

• In normal usage, the e is short: rĕdux. Pre-Classically, however (specifically in Plautus), the e occurred long: rēdux.

Declension

Third-declension one-termination adjective.

Number	Singular			Plural
Case / Gender	Masc./Fem.	Neuter		Masc./Fem.	Neuter
Nominative	redux			reducēs	reducia
Genitive	reducis			reducium
Dative	reducī			reducibus
Accusative	reducem	redux		reducēs	reducia
Ablative	reducī			reducibus
Vocative	redux			reducēs	reducia

• The ablative singular (in all genders) can be reduce or reducī.

Descendants

• → English: redux
• Italian: reduce

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 with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• rĕdux in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, 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