appendix

Borrowed from Latin appendix.

• (UK, US) enPR: ə-pĕn'dĭks, IPA^(key): /əˈpɛn.dɪks/
  • (pin–pen merger) IPA^(key): /əˈpɪn.dɪks/

• Audio (US):

  (file)

appendix (plural appendices or appendixes)

1. (obsolete in general sense) Something attached to something else; an attachment or accompaniment.

   Synonyms: addition, addendum, attachment; see also Thesaurus:adjunct

   Near-synonyms: ancillary, auxiliary

   • 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC:
     , vol.I, New York 2001, p.244:

     idleness is an appendix to nobility; they count it a disgrace to work, and spend all their days in sports, recreations, and pastimes […]

2. A text added to the end of a book or an article, containing additional information.

   Holonym: back matter

   Coordinate terms: afterword, epilogue, postscript

   Near-synonyms: supplement (sometimes synonymous), addendum, codicil

3. (anatomy) The vermiform appendix.
4. (anatomy) Any process, prolongation, or projection.

   Synonym: appendage

• Both plural forms are found in various major dictionaries:

Borrowed from Latin appendix.

• IPA^(key): /ˌɑˈpɛn.dɪks/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Hyphenation: ap‧pen‧dix

appendix f (plural appendices, no diminutive)

1. an appendix, a section appended to the main body of a text or publication with peripheral information

   Synonym: aanhangsel

2. a vermiform appendix

   Synonym: wormvormig aanhangsel

3. the appendix of a balloon

   Synonyms: vulaanhangsel, vulslurf

• appendicitis

• → Indonesian: apendiks

From appendō (“hang upon”) + -ix.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [apˈpɛn.dɪks]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [apˈpɛn.diks]

appendix f (genitive appendicis); third declension

1. supplement, addition
2. appendage
3. barberry (shrub)

Third-declension noun.

• appendicium
• appendō
• appensor
• appensus

• “appendix”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “appendix”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "appendix", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “appendix”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

• apendyks

Unadapted borrowing from Latin appendix.

• IPA^(key): /aˈpɛn.dɘks/
• Rhymes: -ɛndɘks
• Syllabification: a‧ppen‧dix

appendix m inan

1. (rare) appendix (any addition, particularly to a book)

   Synonyms: aneks, dodatek, uzupełnienie, załącznik

• “appendix”, in Polish dictionaries at PWN‎^[1] (in Polish)