# annex
## English
### Pronunciation

* Noun:
** (UK, US) IPA: /ˈænɛks/
* Verb:
** (UK) IPA: /ˈænɛks/
** (US) IPA: /əˈnɛks/, /ˈænɛks/
* Audio (US):(file)
* Rhymes: -ɛks

### Etymology 1

Borrowed from French annexe, from Latin annexus. More at Etymology 2.

#### Alternative forms

* annexe (UK, Australia, New Zealand)
* anex (US)
* annx.
* anx.

#### Noun

annex (plural annexes)
* An addition, an extension.
** 1949, World Health Organization, Report on the 1st- Session May 10-15‎, page 19:6.2.3.2.2. For aircraft having pressurized cabins, the disinsection of cabins and annexes, cockpit and annexes, is to be carried out after the embarkation of passengers and crew and the closing of the doors and windscreen[.]
* An appendix to a book or document.
* An addition or extension to a building.
* An addition to the territory of a country or state, from a neighbouring country or state, normally by military force.

##### Synonyms

* (something additional): addition, supplement; See also Thesaurus:adjunct or Thesaurus:augmentation

##### Derived terms

* granny annexe

##### Translations
### Etymology 2

From Middle English annexen, anexen, from Old French annexer (“to join”), from Medieval Latin annexāre, infinitive of annexō, frequentative of Latin annectō (“bind to”), from ad (“to”) + nectō (“tie, bind”). Compare the rare annect. Doublet of adnex.

#### Verb

annex (third-person singular simple present annexes, present participle annexing, simple past and past participle annexed)
* To add something to another thing, especially territory; to incorporate.
    The ancient city of Petra was annexed by Rome.
** 2009, Wikipedia:Syngman Rhee:In 1910, he returned to Korea, which had by this time been annexed by Japan.
* To attach or connect, as a consequence, condition, etc.
    to annex a penalty to a prohibition, or punishment to guilt
** 1793, John Horne Tooke, The Constitution of England:Under Edward the Second, the Commons began to annex petitions to the bills by which they granted subsidies
* (intransitive) To join; to be united.

##### Synonyms

* underjoin

##### Antonyms

* separate

##### Derived terms

* annexable
* annexation
* annexational
* annexationism
* annexationist
* annexment
* annexure
* disannex
* nonannexed
* reannex
* unannexed

##### Related terms

* adnexa

##### Translations
#### See also

* merge
* fuse
* add

### Anagrams

* xenna-

## Catalan
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin annexus.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central, Balearic) [ənˈnɛks]
* IPA: (Valencia) [aˈnɛks]
* Audio (Barcelona):(file)

### Noun

annex m (plural annexos)
* annex (an addition, an extension)
* annex (an addition to a building)

#### Derived terms

* annexar

### Adjective

annex (feminine annexa, masculine plural annexos, feminine plural annexes)
* attached (of a document)

### Further reading

* “annex” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

## Swedish
### Noun

annex n
* annex (an addition to a building)
* annex (an addition, an extension)

#### Declension

| | | nominative | genitive |
| singular | indefinite | annex | annex |
| singular | definite | annexet | annexets |
| plural | indefinite | annex | annex |
| plural | definite | annexen | annexens |