# fax
## Translingual
### Symbol

fax
* (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Fala.

### See also

* Wiktionary's coverage of Fala terms

## English
### Pronunciation

* enPR: făks, IPA: /fæks/
* Audio (US):(file)
* Homophone: facts (informal US and Canada pronunciation)
* Rhymes: -æks

### Etymology 1

From Middle English fax, from Old English feax (“hair, head of hair”), from Proto-West Germanic *fahs, from Proto-Germanic *fahsą (“hair, mane”), from Proto-Indo-European *poḱsom (“hair”, literally “that which is combed, shorn, or plucked”), from Proto-Indo-European *peḱ- (“to comb, shear, pluck”). Cognate with Dutch vas (“headhair”), German Fachs (“head-hair”), Norwegian faks (“mane”), Icelandic fax (“mane”), Sanskrit पक्ष्मन् (pákṣman, “eyelash, hair, filament”).

#### Noun

fax (usually uncountable, plural faxes)
* (obsolete or UK dialectal) The hair of the head.

##### Derived terms

* faxed
* Fairfax
* Halifax

### Etymology 2

Clipping of facsimile, first attested 1979.

#### Noun

fax (plural faxes or (rare) faxxes)
* Ellipsis of fax machine: the device for faxing; the medium of communication that it provides.
    OK, now take it down the hall to the fax.
    You can send it via email or fax. You can use an online fax service where you upload a PDF and then send it to a fax number.
* A document sent, or received and printed, by a fax machine.

##### Derived terms

* black fax
* cryptofax
* e-fax
* faxback
* fax bomb
* faxlore
* fax modem
* fax number

##### Descendants

* → Japanese: ファックス

##### Translations
#### Verb

fax (third-person singular simple present faxes or (rare) faxxes, present participle faxing or (rare) faxxing, simple past and past participle faxed or (rare) faxxed)
* To send a document via a fax machine.
** 1990, Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine, volume 14, page 82:Hands trembling with excitement and impatience, I faxxed my credit history to Jerry Raskin, the real estate agent listed, and received an appointment to view the place.
** 1991, Jury Verdicts Weekly, volume 35, page 10:Plaintiff contented that in a game show in London, England, in January of 1988, Mr. Steinberg entered into an oral agreement with Atari representatives to become the exclusive distributor of Atari Games’ products; that the proposed agreement was dictated at this meeting; and that within two days Mr. Steinberg sent defendant a faxxed confirmation of this oral arrangement reached at the London trade show.
** 1992, Montana National Forest Management Act of 1991: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Public Lands, National Parks and Forests of the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, United States Senate, One Hundred Second Congress, First Session on S. 1696; October 22, 1991, Washington: United States Government Publishing Office, →ISBN, pages 140–141:SENATOR BAUCUS, IT IS THE THIRD STATEMENT, YOUR CHALLENGE, THAT HAS LED TO THE MOST FRUSTRATION FOR THE PEOPLE I AM REPRESENTING TODAY. WE TOOK YOU AT YOUR WORD AND HAVE RALLIED AND CONVOYED TO MAKE YOU AWARE OF US, TELEPHONED, WRITTEN LETTERS, FAXXED YOU, AND SPOKE WITH YOU PERSONALLY TO LET YOU KNOW HOW WE FEEL.
** 1993, H. Bruce Franklin, M.I.A., or, Mythmaking in America, revised and expanded paperback edition, New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press, →ISBN, page 194:A few of the corporations involved have frankly acknowledged the roadblock: their own fear of the POW/MIA movement. Some companies scheduled for a trade mission to Vietnam dropped out after receiving a faxxed message from the National P.O.W. Strike Force summed up by its leader: “We will go out of our way to destroy your company because you want to do business with filthy Communists who are holding American prisoners.”
** 1993, Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence, Proceedings of the Eleventh National Conference on Artificial Intelligence, →ISBN, page 737, column 1:Thanks to Franz Amador and Tony Barrett for helpful discussions. We gratefully acknowledge Oren Etzioni’s emergency faxxing service. This research was funded in part by National Science Foundation Grant IRI-8957302, Office of Naval Research Grant 90-J-1904, and a grant from the Xerox corporation.
** 1994, Olga Elena Mattei, “Part One: Poetry [§] The Angel of the Millennium (Accident at the Nuclear Plant)”, in Roberta Fernández, editor, In Other Words: Literature by Latinas of the United States, Houston, Texas: Arte Público Press, →ISBN, page 139:His logistic: to dress in the skin of the worker, / the technician, the programmer, / infiltrating himself in their milieu, / their offices, their plants, & their boards, / a bug in their systems, / crossing up the controls and the panels, / the wiring, the wave lengths, / the faxxing of messages, the spy-satellites / & their receptors, / changing their conceptions, their charts.
** 1995, Lucha Corpi, Cactus Blood: A Mystery Novel, Houston, Texas: Arte Público Press, →ISBN, page 151:He already has the copy of the other fingerprints that Leo faxxed to him for comparison.
** 1995 May 17, Ken Luongo, “Comments on GAO Report on CTR Program Concerning MPCA (note to Ken Sanders)”, in Weapons of Mass Destruction: Reducing the Threat From the Former Soviet Union: An Update (United States General Accounting Office, Report to Congressional Requesters), published June 1995, “Background”, page 76:On May 12, 1995, Julie Hirshen (GAO) faxxed a draft portion of the GAO Cooperative Threat Reduction report dealing with MPCA.
** 1996, Middle East Peace Process: Hearing Before the Committee on International Relations House of Representatives, One Hundred Fourth Congress, First Session; September 20, 1995, Washington: United States Government Publishing Office, →ISBN, page 25:[162] / Faxxing from Israel / 03-695-0132 / [163] / Calling from abroad / 972-3-695-6868 / Faxxing from abroad / 972-3-695-0132
** 1997 May 18, Mike Story, “Confirmed....Pilot Modem Has FAX capability!!”, in alt.comp.sys.palmtops.pilot (Usenet):Please advise how one faxxes from the Pilot Pro. Faxxing would greatly enhance my use of the Pilot. / Thanks!
** 1999, Appendix E: Response to Public Comments: Final Environmental Impact Statement For Open Road and Open Motorized Trail Analysis (Motorized Road and Trail Travel Plan):Please have Georgia Dixon of Sen Craig’s office have a current copy of the Canadian Endangered Species list faxxed to her from Ottawa, Canada.

##### Derived terms

* faxable
* refax

##### Translations
### Etymology 3

Formed with -x from facts; the pronunciation of facts and fax is identical in certain varieties of English.

#### Noun

fax pl (plural only)
* (informal) Nonstandard form of facts.
    Synonym: trufax

#### Interjection

fax
* (informal) Alternative form of facts (“used to express agreement”).
    Synonyms: fax, no printer; trufax; tru dat; true dat; true that

#### See also
## Chinese
### Etymology

From English fax.

### Pronunciation 1

* Cantonese (Jyutping): fek$^1$ si$^2$
* Cantonese
** (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
*** Jyutping: fek$^1$ si$^2$
*** Yale: fēk sí
*** Cantonese Pinyin: fek$^7$ si$^2$
*** Guangdong Romanization: fég$^1$ xi$^2$
*** Sinological IPA : /fɛːk̚⁵ siː³⁵/

#### Noun

fax
* (Hong Kong Cantonese) fax (document) (Classifier: 張／张 c; 份 c)
    fax機／fax机 [Cantonese] ― fek$^1$ si$^2$ gei$^1$ [Jyutping] ― fax machine

### Pronunciation 2

* Cantonese (Jyutping): fek$^1$ si$^2$ / fek$^1$
* Cantonese
** (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
*** Jyutping: fek$^1$ si$^2$ / fek$^1$
*** Yale: fēk sí / fēk
*** Cantonese Pinyin: fek$^7$ si$^2$ / fek$^7$
*** Guangdong Romanization: fég$^1$ xi$^2$ / fég$^1$
*** Sinological IPA : /fɛːk̚⁵ siː³⁵/, /fɛːk̚⁵/

#### Verb

fax
* (Hong Kong Cantonese) to fax

### References

* English Loanwords in Hong Kong Cantonese

## Czech
### Noun

fax m inan
* fax (document)
* fax, fax machine

#### Related terms

* faxovat

## Dutch
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /fɑks/
* Audio:(file)
* Hyphenation: fax
* Rhymes: -ɑks

### Etymology 1

Borrowed from English fax (“a fax machine; to fax”).

#### Noun

fax m (plural faxen, diminutive faxje n)
* fax

##### Synonyms

* telefacsimile
* telefax

### Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Verb

fax
* inflection of faxen:
** first-person singular present indicative
** (in case of inversion) second-person singular present indicative
** imperative

## French
### Etymology

Borrowed from English fax.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /faks/
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

fax m (plural fax)
* fax
    Synonym: télécopie
* fax machine
    Synonyms: télécopieur, télécopieuse

## German
### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)

### Verb

fax
* singular imperative of faxen

## Hungarian
### Etymology

From English (tele)fax, from facsimile.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈfɒks]
* Rhymes: -ɒks

### Noun

fax (countable and uncountable, plural faxok)
* (historical) the procedure of faxing (sending a document via a fax machine)
* (historical) fax, ellipsis of faxkészülék (“fax machine”)
* (historical) ellipsis of faxüzenet (“fax message/document”)
* (historical) ellipsis of faxszám (“fax number”)

#### Derived terms

* faxol → elfaxol
* faxberendezés
* faxgép
* faxkezelő
* faxkészülék
* faxpapír
* faxszám
* faxszolgáltatás
* faxüzenet
* faxváltás
* körfax

### References

* ↑ Tótfalusi, István. Idegenszó-tár: Idegen szavak értelmező és etimológiai szótára (’A Storehouse of Foreign Words: an explanatory and etymological dictionary of foreign words’). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2005. →ISBN

### Further reading

* fax in Nóra Ittzés, editor, A magyar nyelv nagyszótára [A Comprehensive Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (Nszt.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 2006–2031 (work in progress; published a–ez as of 2024).

## Icelandic
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /faxs/
* IPA: /faks/

### Etymology 1

Inherited from Old Norse fax (“mane”).

#### Noun

fax n (genitive singular fax, nominative plural föx)
* mane (of a horse)

##### See also

* makki

### Etymology 2

Borrowed from English fax, from facsimile, from Latin.

#### Noun

fax n (genitive singular fax, nominative plural föx)
* fax, telefax (document sent electronically and printed with a fax machine)
    Synonym: símbréf
* fax machine
    Synonyms: faxtæki, bréfsími

##### Declension
## Latin
### Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰweh₂k- (“to shine”). Cognate with facētus, Lithuanian žvakė (“candle”). Compare also Etruscan 𐌚𐌀𐌂𐌄 (face, “torch (?)”).

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /faks/, [fäks̠]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /faks/, [fäks]

### Noun

fax f (genitive facis); third declension
* torch, firebrand
* fireball, comet
* cause of ruin, incitement

#### Declension

Third-declension noun.

#### Derived terms

* facula

#### See also

* torris
* titio

### References

* “fax”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* “fax”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
* Zoëga, Geir T. (1910) “fax”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press; also available at the Internet Archive
* fax 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)
* fax in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
* “fax”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
* “fax”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
* Pokorny, Julius (1959) Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 2, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 495

## Middle English
### Alternative forms

* væx (early)

### Etymology

From Old English feax, from Proto-West Germanic *fahs.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /faks/

### Noun

fax (plural faxes)
* The hair of the head.

#### Derived terms

* faxwax

#### Descendants

* English: fax (obsolete)
* Scots: fax

#### References

* “fax, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

## Norman
### Etymology

Borrowed from English fax.

### Noun

fax m (plural fax)
* (Jersey) fax

## Old Norse
### Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *fahsą, from *peḱ- (“to pluck”).

### Noun

fax n
* a mane

#### Descendants

* Icelandic: fax
* Faroese: faks
* Norwegian: faks
* → Scots: fax (foam-topped wave, swell)

### Further reading

* “fax”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* “fax”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
* Zoëga, Geir T. (1910) “fax”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press; also available at the Internet Archive
* fax 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)
* “fax”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
* “fax”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

## Polish
### Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English fax.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈfaks/
* Rhymes: -aks
* Syllabification: fax

### Noun

fax m inan
* (telephony) Alternative spelling of faks
    Synonym: telefax

#### Declension
### Further reading

* fax in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
* fax in Polish dictionaries at PWN

## Portuguese
### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈfaks/
* (Portugal) IPA: /ˈfaks/

### Noun

fax m (plural faxes)
* fax (document transmitted by telephone)

## Romanian
### Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English fax.

### Noun

fax n (plural faxuri)
* fax

#### Declension
## Spanish
### Etymology

Borrowed from English fax.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈfaɡs/ [ˈfaɣ̞s]
* Rhymes: -aɡs
* Syllabification: fax

### Noun

fax m (plural fax)
* fax

### Further reading

* “fax”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10

### Anagrams

* xfa

## Swedish
### Pronunciation

* Homophone: facks

### Noun

fax c or n
* a fax (machine) c
* a fax (document) n

#### Synonyms

* telefax

#### Related terms

* faksimil
* faxa
* faxmeddelande
* faxnummer
* faxsignal
* faxsändning

### References

* fax in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)

## Zhuang
### Etymology

From Proto-Tai *vaːꟲ (“sky; weather”). Cognate with Thai ฟ้า (fáa), Northern Thai ᨼ᩶ᩣ, Lao ຟ້າ (fā), Lü ᦝᦱᧉ (faa²), Shan ၽႃႉ (phâ̰a) or ၾႃႉ (fâ̰a), Ahom 𑜇𑜠 (pha), 𑜇𑜡 (phā), 𑜇𑜨𑜠 (phoa), 𑜇𑜨𑜡 (phoā) or 𑜇𑜞𑜠 (phra).

### Pronunciation

* (Standard Zhuang) IPA: /fa˦˨/
* Tone numbers: fa$^4$
* Hyphenation: fax

### Noun

fax (Sawndip forms 𭱇 or 𫯨 or 𪥉, 1957–1982 spelling faч)
* (dialectal, including Longzhou) sky
    Synonym: mbwn