# appendix
## English
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin appendix.

### Pronunciation

* (UK, US) enPR: ə-pĕn'dĭks, IPA: /əˈpɛn.dɪks/
** (pin–pen merger) IPA: /əˈpɪn.dɪks/
* Audio (US):(file)

### Noun

appendix (plural appendices or appendixes)
* (obsolete in general sense) Something attached to something else; an attachment or accompaniment.
    Synonyms: addition, addendum, attachment; see also Thesaurus:adjunct
    Near-synonyms: ancillary, auxiliary
** 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC:, vol.I, New York 2001, p.244:
    idleness is an appendix to nobility; they count it a disgrace to work, and spend all their days in sports, recreations, and pastimes […]
* A text added to the end of a book or an article, containing additional information.
    Holonym: back matter
    Coordinate terms: afterword, epilogue, postscript
    Near-synonyms: supplement (sometimes synonymous), addendum
* (anatomy) The vermiform appendix.
* (anatomy) Any process, prolongation, or projection.
    Synonym: appendage

#### Usage notes

Both plural forms are found in various major dictionaries:
| Dictionary or usage guide | Entry | Notes |
| Merriam-Webster Unabridged online | "appendixes or appendices" | No other qualification |
| Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary online | "appendixes or appendices" | No other qualification |
| Merriam-Webster’s Medical Dictionary online | "appendixes or appendices" | No other qualification |
| Stedman's Medical Dictionary online | "appendixes or appendices" | No other qualification |
| Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary, 32nd edition | "appendixes or appendices" | No other qualification |
| American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language online | "appendices or appendixes" | No other qualification |
| Garner's Modern English Usage, fourth edition | "appendixes; appendices" | "Both are correct plural forms for appendix, but appendixes is preferable outside scientific contexts […] Nevertheless, the nonnative plural is more frequent [per Google Books Ngram data] by a 3-to-1 margin." |
| OxfordDictionaries.com, UK subset | "appendixes or appendices" | "Appendix typically has the plural appendixes in the anatomical sense, and appendices when referring to a part of a book or document." |

#### Derived terms

* app.
* appendectomy
* appendical
* appendicitis
* appendix auriculae
* appendixless
* epiploic appendix
* hilar appendix
* mesoappendix
* subappendix
* vermix

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## Dutch
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin appendix.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˌɑˈpɛn.dɪks/
* Audio:(file)
* Hyphenation: ap‧pen‧dix

### Noun

appendix f (plural appendices)
* an appendix, a section appended to the main body of a text or publication with peripheral information
    Synonym: aanhangsel
* a vermiform appendix
    Synonym: wormvormig aanhangsel
* the appendix of a balloon
    Synonyms: vulaanhangsel, vulslurf

#### Derived terms

* appendicitis

#### Descendants

* → Indonesian: apendiks

## Latin
### Etymology

From appendō (“hang upon”) + -ix.

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /apˈpen.diks/, [äpˈpɛn̪d̪ɪks̠]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /apˈpen.diks/, [äpˈpɛn̪d̪iks]

### Noun

appendix f (genitive appendicis); third declension
* supplement, addition
* appendage
* barberry (shrub)

#### Declension

Third-declension noun.

#### Related terms

* appendicium
* appendō
* appensor
* appensus

#### Descendants

* Catalan: apèndix
* English: appendix
* French: appendice
* Galician: apéndice
* German: Appendix
* Irish: aipindic
* Italian: appendice
* Portuguese: apêndice
* Romanian: apendice
* Russian: аппе́ндикс (appéndiks)
* Scottish Gaelic: aipeandaig
* Spanish: apéndice

### References

* “appendix”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* “appendix”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
* appendix 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)
* appendix in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

## Polish
### Alternative forms

* apendyks

### Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from Latin appendix.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /aˈpɛn.dɘks/
* Rhymes: -ɛndɘks
* Syllabification: a‧ppen‧dix

### Noun

appendix m inan
* (rare) appendix (any addition, particularly to a book)
    Synonyms: aneks, dodatek, uzupełnienie, załącznik

#### Declension
### Further reading

* appendix in Polish dictionaries at PWN