prox
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Compare proxy.
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /pɹɒks/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
- Rhymes: -ɒks
Noun
[edit]prox (plural proxes)
- (US, Rhode Island) The ticket or list of candidates at elections, presented to the people for their votes.
- 1841, Report of the select committee [on] the memorial of the democratic members of the Legislature of Rhode Island:
- on the election day at Newport , the ticket containing the names of the general officers has been called “ the prox” of general officers
References
[edit]- “prox”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
Latin
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /proks/, [prɔks̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /proks/, [prɔks]
Interjection
[edit]prox
References
[edit]- “prox”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- prox in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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