prox

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• IPA^(key): /pɹɒks/

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• Rhymes: -ɒks

prox (plural proxes)

1. (US, Rhode Island) The ticket or list of candidates at elections, presented to the people for their votes.
   • 1841, Report of the select committee [on] the memorial of the democratic members of the Legislature of Rhode Island:

     on the election day at Newport , the ticket containing the names of the general officers has been called “ the prox” of general officers

• “prox”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Perhaps related to prex. (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

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

prox (hapax legomenon)

1. by your leave
   • c. 191 BCE, Plautus, Pseudolus 5.1.38:

     Itaque dum enitor, prox, iam paene inquinavi pallium.

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   • [2nd century CE, Sextus Pompeius Festus, edited by Karl Otfried Müller, De Significatione Verborum, published 1839, page 252, line 2; epitomized by Paul the Deacon, 8th c.:

     Prox bona vox, ut aestimo, quasi proba vox. […] Prox, bona vox, velut quidam praesignificare videtur, ut ait Labeo de iure pontificio L. XI.

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• “prox”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “prox”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.