pix

English Online Dictionary. What means pix‎? What does pix mean?

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pɪks/
• Rhymes: -ɪks
• Homophones: picks, pics, pyx

Etymology 1

Abbreviation of pictures, first used in Variety in 1916, along with other similar words that the magazine calls slanguage.

Noun

pix pl (normally plural, singular pic)

1. (informal) plural of pic (“picture”)
   • 1946, “Palisades Notes”, in The Billboard, Nielsen Business Media, Inc., ISSN 0006-2510, Volume 58, Number 37 (1946 September 14), page 82:

     Annual photo contest has brought in some pix by amateurs which are definitely in the professional category.

   • 1978, response to a letter to the editor, in American Motorcyclist, American Motorcyclist Association, ISSN 0277-9358, Volume 32, Number 2 (1978 February), page 4:

     Photo selection can be tricky with space limitations, Arthur, and we blew that one. Hope the Scott pix in our January issue made you feel better about this.
2. (specifically) Motion pictures; movies.

Related terms

• pixel

Etymology 2

A variant of pyx.

Noun

pix (plural pixes)

1. Obsolete spelling of pyx. [Late Middle English–19th c.]

Verb

pix (third-person singular simple present pixes, present participle pixing, simple past and past participle pixed)

1. Obsolete spelling of pyx.

References

Ixil

Verb

pix

1. to tie

References

• Dwight David Jewett and Marcos Willis, A' u u' uva'a uva' molel ca ink'a kuyolb'al atz tuch' yolb'al castiiya (Diccionario Ixil de Chajul - Español, Español - Ixil de Chajul) (1996)

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *piks, suggested to be dissimulated from earlier *pitks (compare development of texō), from Proto-Indo-European *pī́t-k-s ~ *pit-k-és, from *pī́ts (“resin”) +‎ *-ks, and related to pīnus (“pine”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /piks/, [pɪks̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /piks/, [piks]

Noun

pix f (genitive picis); third declension

1. pitch, tar

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Derived terms

Descendants

References

Portuguese

Alternative forms

• Pix

Etymology

From Pix (“instant payment system managed by the Brazilian Central Bank”).

Pronunciation

Noun

pix m (uncountable)

2. (Brazil, banking) A financial transaction made using the Pix platform.

Further reading

• Pix (payment system) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Pix on the Portuguese Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^pt

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from English pick or French Bic (a brand of ballpoint pen).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /piks/

Noun

pix n (plural pixuri)

1. ballpoint pen

Declension

References

• pix in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)
• Romanian vocabulary. In: Haspelmath, M. & Tadmor, U. (eds.) World Loanword Database. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.

Swedish

Noun

pix

1. (slang) krona, SEK (Swedish unit of currency)

   Synonym: spänn

2. (slang) benzodiazepine pills, like Xanax

   Synonyms: flödder, habb

References

• Swedish Police Authority list of drug slang