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ex

See also: Ex, ex., ex-, -ex, eX, and EX

ex - English

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /ˈɛks/

Noun

ex (plural exes)

  1. The name of the Latin-script letter X.

Derived terms

  • exray
  • ex-ray

Translations

  • Arabic: إِكْس‎ m (ʔiks), إِكْس‎ m (ʔeks)
  • Asturian: equis (ast) f
  • Bulgarian: хикс (bg) m (hiks)
  • Catalan: ics (ca) f
  • Chinese:
    • Mandarin: (English letter names are called as in English, no other standard Mandarin name exists)
  • Esperanto: ikso (eo)
  • Finnish: äks (fi), äksä (fi)
  • French: ixe (fr) m
  • Galician: xe (gl) m
  • German: Ix n, Iks n
  • Greek: εξ (el) n (ex)
  • Hawaiian: kesa
  • Hindi: एक्स (eks)
  • Icelandic: ex n
  • Ido: xe (io)
  • Irish: eacs
  • Italian: ics (it) f or m
  • Japanese: エックス (ekkusu)
  • Korean: 엑스 (ekseu)
  • Latin: ix, īx, ex (la)
  • Malay: eks
  • Marathi: एक्स (eksa)
  • Occitan: ixa (oc) f
  • Persian: ایکس‎ (fa) (iks)
  • Polish: iks (pl) n
  • Portuguese: xis (pt) m
  • Russian: экс m (eks) (English), икс (ru) m (iks)
  • Spanish: equis (es) f
  • Thai: เอกซ์ (th) (ék)
  • Turkish: iks
  • Vietnamese: ích (vi), xờ (vi), xờ nhẹ (vi)
  • Welsh: ecs f

Verb

ex (third-person singular simple present exes, present participle exing, simple past and past participle exed)

  1. To delete; to cross out

Noun

ex (plural exes)

  1. (colloquial) A former partner or spouse, usually short for ex-girlfriend, ex-boyfriend, ex-wife or ex-husband.
    • Her ex is still sending her flowers, even though she has moved on.

Translations

  • Bulgarian: бивш (bg) m (bivš), бивша (bg) f (bivša)
  • Catalan: ex (ca) m or f
  • Chinese:
    • Mandarin: 前任 (zh) (qiánrèn)
  • Czech: bývalý (cs) m, bývalá (cs) f
  • Dutch: ex (nl) m or f
  • Finnish: eksä (fi)
  • French: ex (fr) m or f
  • Galician: ex m or f
  • German: Ex (de) m or f
  • Greek: πρώην (el) m or f (próin)
  • Hebrew: אקס‎ m (eqs), אקסית‎ f (eqsit)
  • Icelandic: fyrrverandi (adjective)
  • Indonesian: mantan (id)
  • Irish: iarchéile m, iarpháirtí m, iarleannán m
  • Italian: ex (it) m
  • Maori: o mua
  • Norwegian: eks m
  • Polish: eks (pl) m or f, były (pl) m, była (pl) f
  • Portuguese: ex (pt) m or f
  • Romanian: fostul m
  • Russian: экс m (eks), бы́вший (ru) m (bývšij), бы́вшая (ru) f (bývšaja)
  • Serbo-Croatian: bivši (sh), bivša (sh)
  • Spanish: ex (es)
  • Swedish: ex (sv)

Adjective

ex (not comparable)

  1. Ex-, former, previously but no longer.

Adjective

ex (not comparable)

  1. (rail transport, of a train) the place the train originated from or called at prior to the present location.

Usage notes

  • ex is always followed by a location and frequently preceded by a time or other identifier of the specific train. The time may be either the time it was scheduled to depart the given location or the time it was scheduled to pass the current location.
  • ‘’ex’’ can be used in biological taxonomy in identifying the author. See w:Author citation (botany)#Usage of the term “ex”.

Adjective

ex (comparative more ex, superlative most ex)

  1. (Singapore, colloquial) expensive, dear
    • It's too ex.

Noun

ex

  1. (Canada) Clipping of exhibition.

Anagrams

ex - Catalan

Noun

ex m or f (plural ex)

  1. ex (former partner)

ex - Chinese

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /ɪks²²/

Noun

ex

  1. (Hong Kong Cantonese) ex (former partner)

ex - Dutch

Noun

ex m or f (plural exen, diminutive exje n)

  1. ex (former partner)

ex - French

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /ɛks/

Noun

ex m or f by sense (plural ex)

  1. ex (former partner)

ex - German

Verb

ex

  1. singular imperative of exen
  2. (colloquial) first-person singular present of exen

ex - Hungarian

Pronunciation

  • IPA: [ˈɛks]
  • Hyphenation: ex

Noun

ex (plural exek)

  1. (colloquial) ex (ex-husband, ex-wife or ex-partner)

Declension

Inflection (stem in -e-, front unrounded harmony)
Possessive forms of ex

ex - Icelandic

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /ɛks/
  • IPA: /ɛxs/

Noun

ex n (genitive singular ex, nominative plural ex)

  1. The name of the Latin-script letter X.

Declension

n-s singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative ex exið ex exin
accusative ex exið ex exin
dative exi exinu exum exunum
genitive ex exins exa exanna

ex - Italian

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /ˈɛks/
  • Hyphenation: èx

Noun

ex m or f by sense (invariable)

  1. ex (ex-boyfriend, girlfriend)

ex - Latin

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA: /eks/, [ɛks̠]
  • (Ecclesiastical) IPA: /eks/, [ɛks]

Noun

ex f (indeclinable)

  1. A name of the letter X.

Usage notes

  • Multiple Latin names for the letter X, x have been suggested. The most common are ix or īx, ex, or a syllabic x, although there is some evidence which also supports such names for the letter as xē and xə.

Synonyms

  • (name of the letter X): ix, īx

Coordinate terms

Preposition

ex (+ ablative)

  1. out of, from

Usage notes

  • Sometimes apocopated with compensatory lengthening as ē. In cases where the following word begins with a vowel or h, only ex is used. Besides that, there are no rules for the use of either ē or ex, with both forms even used in the same sentence (e.g. "qui ex corporum vinculis tamquam e carcere evolaverunt”, Cicero, Republic 6, 14).

Antonyms

Derived terms

ex - Middle English

Noun

ex

  1. Alternative form of ax (“axe”)

ex - Portuguese

Pronunciation

 
  • (Brazil) IPA: /ˈe(j)s/ [ˈe(ɪ̯)s], /ˈejs/ [ˈeɪ̯s]
 
  • (Portugal) IPA: /ˈɐjʃ/
  • Homophones: ex-, -ês (Brazil)
  • Hyphenation: ex

Noun

ex m or f by sense (invariable)

  1. (colloquial) ex (an ex-husband, ex-wife or ex-partner)

ex - Spanish

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /ˈeɡs/ [ˈeɣ̞s]
  • Syllabification: ex

Noun

ex m or f (plural exes)

  1. ex (ex-husband, ex-wife or ex-partner)

Adjective

ex (indeclinable, always before the noun)

  1. former, ex- (referring to a condition that has ended)

Usage notes

In many cases this is interchangeable with using ex-; for example, the former governor of a province could be called the ex gobernador or the exgobernador.

According to the DRAE, the prefix ex- is preferred for single words (excapitán - former captain), while ex is preferred for multiword terms (ex primera dama - former first lady)

ex - Swedish

Noun

ex n

  1. (colloquial) ex; ex-partner
  2. (colloquial) Short for exemplar (“copy, specimen”).

Declension

Declension of ex 
Meaning and Definition of ex
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