pix

• IPA^(key): /pɪks/
• Rhymes: -ɪks
• Homophones: pics, picks, pyx

First attested 1932, abbreviation of pictures, first used in Variety magazine, along with other similar words that the magazine calls slanguage .

pix pl (plural only)

1. (informal) Plural form of pic in the sense of "picture".
   • 1946, “Palisades Notes”, in The Billboard, Nielsen Business Media, Inc., ISSN 0006-2510, Volume 58, Number 37 (1946 September 14), page 82:

     Annual photo contest has brought in some pix by amateurs which are definitely in the professional category.

   • 1978, response to a letter to the editor, in American Motorcyclist, American Motorcyclist Association, ISSN 0277-9358, Volume 32, Number 2 (1978 February), page 4:

     Photo selection can be tricky with space limitations, Arthur, and we blew that one. Hope the Scott pix in our January issue made you feel better about this.

   • 1980, Iris Murdoch, Nuns And Soldiers

     "But it's not much good piling up the pix if I can't sell them."

   • 2010, Lynn Powell, Framing Innocence: A Mother’s Photographs, a Prosecutor’s Zeal, and a Small Town’s Response, The New Press, →ISBN, pages 15–16:

     He nervously wrote down Amy’s instructions for what to say and how to behave if the police came back with a search warrant:

     • […]
     • take pix of damage afterward

2. Specifically, motion pictures; movies.

pix (plural pixes)

1. Alternative form of pyx

pix

1. to tie

• Dwight David Jewett and Marcos Willis, A' u u' uva'a uva' molel ca ink'a kuyolb'al atz tuch' yolb'al castiiya (Diccionario Ixil de Chajul - Español, Español - Ixil de Chajul) (1996)

From Proto-Indo-European *pik- (“resin”), from Proto-Indo-European *peyH- (“fat”). Cognate with Ancient Greek πίσσα (píssa, “pitch, tar”), Lithuanian pikis (“pitch”), Latin pīnus (“pine”), fat. More at pine.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /piks/, [pɪks]

pix f (genitive picis); third declension

1. pitch, tar

Third declension.

• piceus

• pix in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• pix in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• pix in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• pix in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

Borrowed from English pick.

• IPA^(key): /piks/

pix n (plural pixuri)

1. ballpoint pen

• pix in DEX online - Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)