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Noun [English]

Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Ralsei Worshipper-carnifex.wav Forms: carnifexes [plural], carnifices [plural]
Etymology: From Latin carnifex (“butcher”). Etymology templates: {{bor|en|la|carnifex||butcher}} Latin carnifex (“butcher”) Head templates: {{en-noun|es|carnifices}} carnifex (plural carnifexes or carnifices)
  1. (now rare, historical) An executioner. Tags: archaic, historical Derived forms: distraction carnifex
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Noun [Latin]

IPA: [ˈkar.nɪ.fɛks] [Classical-Latin], [ˈkar.ni.feks] (note: modern Italianate Ecclesiastical)
Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker(H)- Proto-Indo-European *-ō Proto-Indo-European *(s)kér(H)ō Proto-Italic *karō Latin carō Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-der. Proto-Italic *-faks Latin -fex Latin carnifex From carō (“flesh”) + -fex (“maker”). Etymology templates: {{ety|la|:af|carō<t:flesh>|-fex<t:maker>|text=+|title=carnifex|tree=1}} Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker(H)- Proto-Indo-European *-ō Proto-Indo-European *(s)kér(H)ō Proto-Italic *karō Latin carō Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-der. Proto-Italic *-faks Latin -fex Latin carnifex [Appendix:Glossary#inherited|Inherited]] from", "keyword" : "inherited" } ], "lang_name" : "Proto-Italic", "term" : "*karō", "status" : "ok", "lang" : "itc-pro" } ], "keyword_label" : "Inherited from", "keyword" : "inherited" } ], "lang_name" : "Latin", "term" : "carō", "status" : "ok", "lang" : "la" }, { "gloss" : "maker", "children" : [ { "terms" : [ { "children" : [ { "keyword_abbrev" : "der.", "keyword_label" : "Derived from", "terms" : [ { "id" : "do", "children" : [ ], "status" : "ok", "lang_name" : "Proto-Indo-European", "term" : "*dʰeh₁-", "lang" : "ine-pro" } ], "keyword" : "derived" } ], "lang_name" : "Proto-Italic", "term" : "*-faks", "status" : "ok", "lang" : "itc-pro" } ], "keyword_label" : "Inherited from", "keyword" : "inherited" } ], "lang_name" : "Latin", "term" : "-fex", "status" : "ok", "lang" : "la" } ], "keyword_label" : "From", "is_group" : true, "keyword" : "affix" } ], "lang_name" : "Latin", "term" : "carnifex", "status" : "ok", "lang" : "la" }" data-lang="la" data-title="carnifex"> From carō (“flesh”) + -fex (“maker”). Head templates: {{la-noun|carnifex<3>|g=m}} carnifex m (genitive carnificis); third declension Inflection templates: {{la-ndecl|carnifex<3>}} Forms: carnificis [genitive], no-table-tags [table-tags], carnifex [nominative, singular], carnificēs [nominative, plural], carnificis [genitive, singular], carnificum [genitive, plural], carnificī [dative, singular], carnificibus [dative, plural], carnificem [accusative, singular], carnificēs [accusative, plural], carnifice [ablative, singular], carnificibus [ablative, plural], carnifex [singular, vocative], carnificēs [plural, vocative], carnufex [alternative]
  1. butcher, knacker (one who slaughters and renders worn-out livestock) Tags: declension-3, masculine Synonyms: laniātor, lanius, laniō, macellārius
    Sense id: en-carnifex-la-noun-qGlntQ8B Categories (other): Latin masculine nouns in the third declension, Latin terms suffixed with -fex, People Disambiguation of Latin masculine nouns in the third declension: 30 23 23 23 Disambiguation of Latin terms suffixed with -fex: 54 15 15 15 Disambiguation of People: 100 0 0 0
  2. executioner, hangman Tags: declension-3, masculine
    Sense id: en-carnifex-la-noun-4OB0UrDa Categories (other): Occupations Disambiguation of Occupations: 21 48 28 3
  3. tormenter, murderer Tags: declension-3, masculine
    Sense id: en-carnifex-la-noun-nBDqeDHD Categories (other): Latin entries with etymology texts, Latin entries with etymology trees, Latin entries with etymon, Latin entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of Latin entries with etymology texts: 30 10 53 8 Disambiguation of Latin entries with etymology trees: 30 10 53 8 Disambiguation of Latin entries with etymon: 10 9 73 9 Disambiguation of Latin entries with incorrect language header: 18 9 69 4
  4. scoundrel, villain Tags: declension-3, masculine
    Sense id: en-carnifex-la-noun-51MspovL
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: carnificīna, carnificō

Inflected forms

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          "ref": "1980, Gene Wolfe, chapter XIII, in The Shadow of the Torturer (The Book of the New Sun; 1), New York: Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 123:",
          "text": "‘Lesser places have no more than a carnifex, who takes life and performs such excruciations as the judicators there decree.’",
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        },
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              180,
              188
            ]
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          "ref": "2013, Geoffrey Hill, Broken Hierarchies: Poems 1952–2012, Oxford University Press, →OCLC, page 535:",
          "text": "Vorónezh: Ovid thrusts abruptly wide / the ice-locked shutters, discommodes his lyre / to Caesar's harbingers. Interrogation, / whatever is most feared. Truth's fatal vogue, / sad carnifex, self-styled of blood and wax.",
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        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "An executioner."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "executioner",
          "executioner"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(now rare, historical) An executioner."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "archaic",
        "historical"
      ]
    }
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  "categories": [
    "Latin 3-syllable words",
    "Latin entries with etymology texts",
    "Latin entries with etymology trees",
    "Latin entries with etymon",
    "Latin entries with incorrect language header",
    "Latin lemmas",
    "Latin masculine nouns",
    "Latin masculine nouns in the third declension",
    "Latin nouns",
    "Latin terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *(s)ker- (cut)",
    "Latin terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *dʰeh₁-",
    "Latin terms suffixed with -fex",
    "Latin terms with IPA pronunciation",
    "Latin third declension nouns",
    "Pages using etymon with no ID",
    "Pages with 2 entries",
    "Pages with entries",
    "Pages with etymology trees",
    "Pages with etymon",
    "la:Occupations",
    "la:People"
  ],
  "derived": [
    {
      "word": "carnificīna"
    },
    {
      "word": "carnificō"
    }
  ],
  "descendants": [
    {
      "lang": "English",
      "lang_code": "en",
      "raw_tags": [
        "borrowed"
      ],
      "word": "carnifex"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Italian",
      "lang_code": "it",
      "raw_tags": [
        "borrowed"
      ],
      "word": "carnefice"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "lang_code": "pt",
      "raw_tags": [
        "borrowed"
      ],
      "word": "carnífice"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "lang_code": "es",
      "raw_tags": [
        "borrowed"
      ],
      "word": "carnífice"
    }
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      "*(s)ker(H)-",
      "Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-European/(s)ker-#Proto-Indo-European:_cut"
    ],
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      "*-ō",
      "Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-European/-ō"
    ],
    [
      "*karō",
      "Reconstruction:Proto-Italic/karō"
    ],
    [
      "carō",
      "caro#Latin"
    ],
    [
      "*dʰeh₁-",
      "Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-European/dʰeh₁-#Proto-Indo-European:_do"
    ],
    [
      "*-faks",
      "Reconstruction:Proto-Italic/-faks"
    ],
    [
      "-fex",
      "-fex#Latin"
    ],
    [
      "carō",
      "caro#Latin"
    ],
    [
      "-fex",
      "-fex#Latin"
    ]
  ],
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        "1": "la",
        "2": ":af",
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        "4": "-fex<t:maker>",
        "text": "+",
        "title": "carnifex",
        "tree": "1"
      },
      "expansion": "Etymology tree\nProto-Indo-European *(s)ker(H)-\nProto-Indo-European *-ō\nProto-Indo-European *(s)kér(H)ō\nProto-Italic *karō\nLatin carō\nProto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-der.\nProto-Italic *-faks\nLatin -fex\nLatin carnifex\n[Appendix:Glossary#inherited|Inherited]] from\", \"keyword\" : \"inherited\" } ], \"lang_name\" : \"Proto-Italic\", \"term\" : \"*karō\", \"status\" : \"ok\", \"lang\" : \"itc-pro\" } ], \"keyword_label\" : \"Inherited from\", \"keyword\" : \"inherited\" } ], \"lang_name\" : \"Latin\", \"term\" : \"carō\", \"status\" : \"ok\", \"lang\" : \"la\" }, { \"gloss\" : \"maker\", \"children\" : [ { \"terms\" : [ { \"children\" : [ { \"keyword_abbrev\" : \"der.\", \"keyword_label\" : \"Derived from\", \"terms\" : [ { \"id\" : \"do\", \"children\" : [ ], \"status\" : \"ok\", \"lang_name\" : \"Proto-Indo-European\", \"term\" : \"*dʰeh₁-\", \"lang\" : \"ine-pro\" } ], \"keyword\" : \"derived\" } ], \"lang_name\" : \"Proto-Italic\", \"term\" : \"*-faks\", \"status\" : \"ok\", \"lang\" : \"itc-pro\" } ], \"keyword_label\" : \"Inherited from\", \"keyword\" : \"inherited\" } ], \"lang_name\" : \"Latin\", \"term\" : \"-fex\", \"status\" : \"ok\", \"lang\" : \"la\" } ], \"keyword_label\" : \"From\", \"is_group\" : true, \"keyword\" : \"affix\" } ], \"lang_name\" : \"Latin\", \"term\" : \"carnifex\", \"status\" : \"ok\", \"lang\" : \"la\" }\" data-lang=\"la\" data-title=\"carnifex\">\nFrom carō (“flesh”) + -fex (“maker”).",
      "name": "ety"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Etymology tree\nProto-Indo-European *(s)ker(H)-\nProto-Indo-European *-ō\nProto-Indo-European *(s)kér(H)ō\nProto-Italic *karō\nLatin carō\nProto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-der.\nProto-Italic *-faks\nLatin -fex\nLatin carnifex\nFrom carō (“flesh”) + -fex (“maker”).",
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    {
      "form": "carnificis",
      "tags": [
        "genitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "no-table-tags",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "la-ndecl",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "inflection-template"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "carnifex",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "carnificēs",
      "links": [
        [
          "carnificēs",
          "carnifices#Latin"
        ]
      ],
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "carnificis",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "carnificum",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "carnificī",
      "links": [
        [
          "carnificī",
          "carnifici#Latin"
        ]
      ],
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "carnificibus",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "carnificem",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "carnificēs",
      "links": [
        [
          "carnificēs",
          "carnifices#Latin"
        ]
      ],
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "carnifice",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "ablative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "carnificibus",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "ablative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "carnifex",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "singular",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "carnificēs",
      "links": [
        [
          "carnificēs",
          "carnifices#Latin"
        ]
      ],
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "plural",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "carnufex",
      "tags": [
        "alternative"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "args": {
        "1": "carnifex<3>",
        "g": "m"
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    }
  ],
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      "args": {
        "1": "carnifex<3>"
      },
      "name": "la-ndecl"
    }
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  "lang": "Latin",
  "lang_code": "la",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "butcher, knacker (one who slaughters and renders worn-out livestock)"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "butcher",
          "butcher"
        ],
        [
          "knacker",
          "knacker"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "laniātor"
        },
        {
          "word": "lanius"
        },
        {
          "word": "laniō"
        },
        {
          "word": "macellārius"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "declension-3",
        "masculine"
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "executioner, hangman"
      ],
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        [
          "executioner",
          "executioner"
        ],
        [
          "hangman",
          "hangman"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "declension-3",
        "masculine"
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "tormenter, murderer"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "tormenter",
          "tormenter"
        ],
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          "murderer",
          "murderer"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "declension-3",
        "masculine"
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "scoundrel, villain"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "scoundrel",
          "scoundrel"
        ],
        [
          "villain",
          "villain"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "declension-3",
        "masculine"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "[ˈkar.nɪ.fɛks]",
      "tags": [
        "Classical-Latin"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[ˈkar.ni.feks]",
      "note": "modern Italianate Ecclesiastical"
    }
  ],
  "word": "carnifex"
}

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