Etymograph

English

paxis

Paxis comes from Latin pax ‘peace’, and goes back to Proto-Indo-European *peh₂ḱ- ‘to join, to attach’.

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*peh₂ḱ-1‘to join, to attach’reconstructed
  2. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*péh₂ḱ-s1‘peace’reconstructed
  3. Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*pāks1‘peace’reconstructed
  4. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEpax2‘peace’
  5. Englishtodaypaxis2

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor

  1. 1 Wiktionary, Latin pax
  2. 2 Wiktionary, English paxis

Lineage

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*peh₂ḱ-Wiktionary, Latin pax‘to join, to attach’reconstructed
  2. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*péh₂ḱ-sWiktionary, Latin pax‘peace’reconstructed
  3. Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*pāksWiktionary, Latin pax‘peace’reconstructed
  4. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEpaxWiktionary, English paxis‘peace’
  5. EnglishtodaypaxisWiktionary, English paxis

Linked words

through Proto-Indo-European *peh₂ḱ- ‘to join, to attach’

fair, pact, fang, fay, gaffe, 7 more

through Latin pax ‘peace’

peace, pace, repay, pacifist, pax, pogue, pacifism, 4 more

Today it means

intj Used by schoolchildren to express immunity from "being caught" in games such as bulldog or it.

Sources

Sources: Wiktionary, “paxis”; the older steps come from the Wiktionary entry for Latin pax. By Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0, via kaikki.org (dump of Oct 3 2026); text adapted and restructured. Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word. License.

Etymograph / Proto-Indo-European *peh₂ḱ- / paxis

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