mox

mox

1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Molima.

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Molima terms

Clipping of moxie.

mox (countable and uncountable, plural moxes or moxen)

1. (slang, uncountable) Energy, vigor, courage, pluck.
2. (fantasy, roleplaying games, video games, countable) A gemstone with magical properties.
   • 1999 January, The Duelist (magazine), volume 6, number 1, page 103:

     WE MADE IT UP
     The word "mox" was derived from the English slang term "moxie." In case you didn't know, "moxie" has long been associated with energy and vigor. The origin of this word traces back to the early 1930s, when America's most popular soft drink was called Moxie.

• mox nix (etymologically unrelated)

• Allen Varney (1997), Words of Magic

From Proto-Indo-European *moḱs, whence also Sanskrit मक्षू (makṣū, “fast; early”), Avestan 𐬨𐬊𐬱𐬎 (mošu, “soon, quickly”), Irish moch (“early”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈmɔks]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈmɔks]

mox (not comparable)

1. soon

   Synonyms: properē, raptim, breviter, brevī, repente

   • Vīve! Mox senex eris

     Live! Soon you will be old

2. (soon) afterwards, then
3. as soon as (when followed by ubi, ut or quam)
   • c. 1200, anonymous, Carmina Burana 157.7:

     Mox ut vōcem audiō,
     dēnūdātō gladiō
     lupus immolātur,
     ovis ab exitiō
     redēmpta reportātur.

     As soon as a cry I hear,
     with my dagger drawn
     the wolf is killed,
     and freed from death,
     the sheep brought back (into safety).

• “mox”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “mox”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “mox”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Pokorny, Julius (1959), Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), Bern, München: Francke Verlag