dux

Borrowed from Latin dux (“leader”). Doublet of doge, duc, and duke.

• IPA^(key): /dʌks/

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• Rhymes: -ʌks
• Homophone: ducks

dux (plural duxes or duces)

1. (UK, Australia, New Zealand) The top (male or female) academic student in a school, or in a year of school; the top student in a specified academic discipline.

   Synonym: (North America) valedictorian

   • 1849, Wilhelm Steven, The History of the High School of Edinburgh, page 191:

     […] on the motion of Sir John Marjoribanks, Bart., Lord Provost, unanimously resolved, July 27, 1814, “that there be annually presented by the town of Edinburgh to the boy at the head of the Greek class, taught by the rector of the High School, a gold medal of the same value [five guineas] as that annually presented to the dux of the Latin class.”

   • 1999, Keith Scott, Gareth Evans, page 29:

     He finished the year dux of Form III with an average 90 per cent over eight subjects. The school did not award end-of-year marks in fourth and fifth forms, but Evans′ report for those years shows he passed all subjects in both years and was again dux in Form V.

   • 2010, Roger K. A. Allen, Ballina Boy, page 28:

     This school was where my father had been dux in his senior year in 1937 just as his father had been dux at the Rockhampton Grammar School²⁷ before the turn of the 19th century.

   • 2011, A. Lydiard, Running to the Top, page 17:

     Quite a few who became national athletic champions were also duxes or top academic pupils at their schools.

2. (historical) A high-ranking commander in the Roman army, responsible for more than one legion.
3. (music) The subject of a fugue, answered by the comes.

• duke
• dux bellorum
• doge

• UXD

From Russian дух (dux).

• IPA^(key): [duχ]

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dux (definite accusative duxu, plural duxlar)

1. (colloquial, proscribed) courage

   Synonyms: (vulgar) göt, cəsarət

   bunu eləmək üçün dux lazımdır! ― it takes courage to do this!

   buna duxum çatmır ― I lack the courage to do this

• “dux” in Obastan.com.

From dūcō (“lead”, verb) +‎ -s (noun-forming suffix).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /duks/, [d̪ʊks̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /duks/, [d̪uks]

dux m or f (genitive ducis); third declension

1. leader, head
2. commander, general, captain
3. prince, ruler
4. guide, cicerone, conductor
5. (Medieval Latin) duke

   Coordinate term: ducissa

During the Roman Republic, dux could refer to anyone who commanded troops including foreign leaders but was not a formal military rank. In writing his commentaries on the Gallic Wars, Julius Caesar uses the term only for Celtic generals, with one exception for a Roman commander who held no official rank.

Third-declension noun.

• archidux (Medieval)
• condux (Medieval)
• ducātus
• ēducō
• trādux

• archiducātus
• dūcō

• “dux”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “dux”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• dux in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• dux in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • a demagogue, agitator: plebis dux, vulgi turbator, civis turbulentus, civis rerum novarum cupidus
    
  • (ambiguous) to be guided by ambition: gloria duci
    
  • (ambiguous) to cherish a hope: spe duci, niti, teneri
    
  • (ambiguous) to be misled by a vain hope: inani, falsa spe duci, induci
    
• “dux”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• dux in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎, pre-publication website, 2005-2016
• “dux”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
• Sihler, Andrew L. (1995) New Comparative Grammar of Greek and Latin, Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN
• Pokorny, Julius (1959) Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), Bern, München: Francke Verlag

dux

1. (Early Middle English) Alternative form of duk (“duke”)

Borrowed from Latin dux. Doublet of duque.

• IPA^(key): /ˈduɡs/ [ˈd̪uɣ̞s]
• Rhymes: -uɡs
• Syllabification: dux

dux m (plural dux)

1. doge (chief magistrate in the republics of Venice and Genoa)

• “dux”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014