"-fex" meaning in Latin

See -fex in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Suffix

IPA: [fɛks] [Classical-Latin], [feks] (note: modern Italianate Ecclesiastical)
Etymology: Equivalent to faciō + -s. Inherited from Proto-Italic *-faks, from earlier *-θaks, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰéh₁k-s, the root noun of *dʰeh₁-k-, an extension of *dʰeh₁- (“to do; to place”). Related to *fakjō. Etymology templates: {{etymon|la|:inh|itc-pro:*-faks|id=maker}}, {{af|la|faciō|-s}} faciō + -s, {{yesno||i|I}} I, {{glossary|Inherited}} Inherited, {{inh|la|itc-pro|*-faks|||g=|g2=|g3=|id=|lit=|nocat=|pos=|sc=|sort=|tr=|ts=}} Proto-Italic *-faks, {{inh+|la|itc-pro|*-faks}} Inherited from Proto-Italic *-faks, {{der|la|ine-pro||*dʰéh₁k-s}} Proto-Indo-European *dʰéh₁k-s Head templates: {{la-suffix-noun|-fex<3.M>}} -fex m (genitive -ficis); third declension Inflection templates: {{la-ndecl|-fex<3>}} Forms: -ficis [genitive], no-table-tags [table-tags], -fex [nominative, singular], -ficēs [nominative, plural], -ficis [genitive, singular], -ficum [genitive, plural], -ficī [dative, singular], -ficibus [dative, plural], -ficem [accusative, singular], -ficēs [accusative, plural], -fice [ablative, singular], -ficibus [ablative, plural], -fex [singular, vocative], -ficēs [plural, vocative]
  1. denotes maker or performer Tags: declension-3, masculine, morpheme Related terms: faciō

Inflected forms

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "la",
        "2": ":inh",
        "3": "itc-pro:*-faks",
        "id": "maker"
      },
      "expansion": "",
      "name": "etymon"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "la",
        "2": "faciō",
        "3": "-s"
      },
      "expansion": "faciō + -s",
      "name": "af"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "",
        "2": "i",
        "3": "I"
      },
      "expansion": "I",
      "name": "yesno"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "Inherited"
      },
      "expansion": "Inherited",
      "name": "glossary"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "la",
        "2": "itc-pro",
        "3": "*-faks",
        "4": "",
        "5": "",
        "g": "",
        "g2": "",
        "g3": "",
        "id": "",
        "lit": "",
        "nocat": "",
        "pos": "",
        "sc": "",
        "sort": "",
        "tr": "",
        "ts": ""
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-Italic *-faks",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "la",
        "2": "itc-pro",
        "3": "*-faks"
      },
      "expansion": "Inherited from Proto-Italic *-faks",
      "name": "inh+"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "la",
        "2": "ine-pro",
        "3": "",
        "4": "*dʰéh₁k-s"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-Indo-European *dʰéh₁k-s",
      "name": "der"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Equivalent to faciō + -s. Inherited from Proto-Italic *-faks, from earlier *-θaks, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰéh₁k-s, the root noun of *dʰeh₁-k-, an extension of *dʰeh₁- (“to do; to place”). Related to *fakjō.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "-ficis",
      "tags": [
        "genitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "no-table-tags",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "la-ndecl",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "inflection-template"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "-fex",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "-ficēs",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "-ficis",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "-ficum",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "-ficī",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "-ficibus",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "-ficem",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "-ficēs",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "-fice",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "ablative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "-ficibus",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "ablative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "-fex",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "singular",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "-ficēs",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "plural",
        "vocative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "-fex<3.M>"
      },
      "expansion": "-fex m (genitive -ficis); third declension",
      "name": "la-suffix-noun"
    }
  ],
  "inflection_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "-fex<3>"
      },
      "name": "la-ndecl"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Latin",
  "lang_code": "la",
  "pos": "suffix",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Latin entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Latin masculine suffixes in the third declension",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Latin terms suffixed with -s",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages using catfix",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages using etymon with no ID",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "ars (“art”) + -fex → artifex (“artist”)",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "text": "pānis (“bread”) + -fex → pānifex (“bread-maker, baker”)",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "text": "aedēs (“building”) + -fex → aedifex (“builder”)",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "text": "pōns (“bridge”) + -fex → pontifex (“high priest”, literally “bridge-maker”)",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "denotes maker or performer"
      ],
      "id": "en--fex-la-suffix-~6dPSYXJ",
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "faciō"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "declension-3",
        "masculine",
        "morpheme"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "[fɛks]",
      "tags": [
        "Classical-Latin"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[feks]",
      "note": "modern Italianate Ecclesiastical"
    }
  ],
  "word": "-fex"
}
{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "la",
        "2": ":inh",
        "3": "itc-pro:*-faks",
        "id": "maker"
      },
      "expansion": "",
      "name": "etymon"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "la",
        "2": "faciō",
        "3": "-s"
      },
      "expansion": "faciō + -s",
      "name": "af"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "",
        "2": "i",
        "3": "I"
      },
      "expansion": "I",
      "name": "yesno"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "Inherited"
      },
      "expansion": "Inherited",
      "name": "glossary"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "la",
        "2": "itc-pro",
        "3": "*-faks",
        "4": "",
        "5": "",
        "g": "",
        "g2": "",
        "g3": "",
        "id": "",
        "lit": "",
        "nocat": "",
        "pos": "",
        "sc": "",
        "sort": "",
        "tr": "",
        "ts": ""
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-Italic *-faks",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "la",
        "2": "itc-pro",
        "3": "*-faks"
      },
      "expansion": "Inherited from Proto-Italic *-faks",
      "name": "inh+"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "la",
        "2": "ine-pro",
        "3": "",
        "4": "*dʰéh₁k-s"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-Indo-European *dʰéh₁k-s",
      "name": "der"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Equivalent to faciō + -s. Inherited from Proto-Italic *-faks, from earlier *-θaks, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰéh₁k-s, the root noun of *dʰeh₁-k-, an extension of *dʰeh₁- (“to do; to place”). Related to *fakjō.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "-ficis",
      "tags": [
        "genitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "no-table-tags",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "la-ndecl",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "inflection-template"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "-fex",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "-ficēs",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "-ficis",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "-ficum",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "-ficī",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "-ficibus",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "-ficem",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "-ficēs",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "-fice",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "ablative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "-ficibus",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "ablative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "-fex",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "singular",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "-ficēs",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "plural",
        "vocative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "-fex<3.M>"
      },
      "expansion": "-fex m (genitive -ficis); third declension",
      "name": "la-suffix-noun"
    }
  ],
  "inflection_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "-fex<3>"
      },
      "name": "la-ndecl"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Latin",
  "lang_code": "la",
  "pos": "suffix",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "faciō"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "Latin 1-syllable words",
        "Latin entries with incorrect language header",
        "Latin lemmas",
        "Latin masculine suffixes",
        "Latin masculine suffixes in the third declension",
        "Latin noun-forming suffixes",
        "Latin suffixes",
        "Latin terms derived from Proto-Indo-European",
        "Latin terms derived from Proto-Italic",
        "Latin terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root dʰeh₁-",
        "Latin terms inherited from Proto-Italic",
        "Latin terms suffixed with -s",
        "Latin terms with IPA pronunciation",
        "Latin third declension suffixes",
        "Pages using catfix",
        "Pages using etymon with no ID",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "ars (“art”) + -fex → artifex (“artist”)",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "text": "pānis (“bread”) + -fex → pānifex (“bread-maker, baker”)",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "text": "aedēs (“building”) + -fex → aedifex (“builder”)",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "text": "pōns (“bridge”) + -fex → pontifex (“high priest”, literally “bridge-maker”)",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "denotes maker or performer"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "declension-3",
        "masculine",
        "morpheme"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "[fɛks]",
      "tags": [
        "Classical-Latin"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[feks]",
      "note": "modern Italianate Ecclesiastical"
    }
  ],
  "word": "-fex"
}

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