elix
English
Verb
elix (third-person singular simple present elixes, present participle elixing, simple past and past participle elixed)
- (obsolete, transitive) To draw out or extract.
- c. 1599 (date written), I. M. [i.e., John Marston], The History of Antonio and Mellida. The First Part. […], London: […] [Richard Bradock] for Mathewe Lownes, and Thomas Fisher, […], published 1602, →OCLC, (please specify the page):
- O that our muse / Had those abstruse and sinewy faculties / That with a strain of fresh invention / She might press out the rarity of art, / The pur'st elixed juice of rich conceit, / In your attentive ears, that with the lip / Of gracious elocution we might drink / A sound carouse unto your health of wit.
Related terms
References
- “elix”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
Latin
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈeː.liks/, [ˈeːlʲɪks̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈe.liks/, [ˈɛːliks]
Declension
Third-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | ēlix | ēlicēs |
Genitive | ēlicis | ēlicum |
Dative | ēlicī | ēlicibus |
Accusative | ēlicem | ēlicēs |
Ablative | ēlice | ēlicibus |
Vocative | ēlix | ēlicēs |
References
- De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “laciō, -ere”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 321-322
- “elix”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- elix in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “elix”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- elix 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)
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