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English[edit]

English Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia

Etymology[edit]

From Latin index (“a discoverer, informer, spy; of things, an indicator, the forefinger, a title, superscription”), from indicō (“point out, show”); see indicate.

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /ˈɪndɛks/
  • Audio (US)(file)

Noun[edit]

index (plural indexes or indices or (obsolete, in use in the 17th century) index's)

  1. An alphabetical listing of items and their location.
    The index of a book lists words or expressions and the pages of the book upon which they are to be found.
  2. The index finger; the forefinger.
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:index finger
  3. A movable finger on a gauge, scale, etc.
  4. (typography) A symbol resembling a pointing hand, used to direct particular attention to a note or paragraph.
    Synonym: manicule
  5. That which points out; that which shows, indicates, manifests, or discloses.
    • 1731, John Arbuthnot, An Essay Concerning the Nature of Aliments, and the Choice of Them, According to the Different Constitutions of Human Bodies. […], 1st Irish edition, Dublin: […] S. Powell, for George Risk, […], George Ewing, […], and William Smith, […], →OCLC:
      Tastes are the Indexes of the different Qualities of Plants.
  6. A sign; an indication; a token.
    • 1887, Robert Louis Stevenson, The Misadventures of John Nicholson:
      His son's empty guffaws […] struck him with pain as the indices of a weak mind.
  7. (linguistics) A type of noun where the meaning of the form changes with respect to the context; e.g., 'Today's newspaper' is an indexical form since its referent will differ depending on the context. See also icon and symbol.
  8. (economics) A single number calculated from an array of prices or of quantities.
  9. (sciences) A number representing a property or ratio; a coefficient.
  10. (mathematics) A raised suffix indicating a power.
  11. (computing, especially programming and databases) An integer or other key indicating the location of data, e.g. within an array, vector, database table, associative array, or hash table.
  12. (computing, databases) A data structure that improves the performance of operations on a table.
  13. (algebra, index of a subgroup) The number of cosets that exist.
    The index of 2ℤ in ℤ is 2.
  14. (obsolete) A prologue indicating what follows.

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Descendants[edit]

  • ⇒ Chinese: 引得 (yǐndé)
  • → Japanese: インデックス (indekkusu)

Translations[edit]

index finger — see forefinger
typography: symbol resembling a pointing hand, used to direct attention — see manicule
prologue — see prologue

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References[edit]

Verb[edit]

index (third-person singular simple present indexes, present participle indexing, simple past and past participle indexed)

  1. (transitive) To arrange an index for something, especially a long text.
    MySQL does not index short words and common words.
  2. To inventory; to take stock.
  3. (chiefly economics) To normalise in order to account for inflation; to correct for inflation by linking to a price index in order to maintain real levels.
  4. To measure by an associated value.
    • 2019 November 21, Samanth Subramanian, “How our home delivery habit reshaped the world”, in The Guardian‎[1]:
      For thousands of years, human progress was indexed to the ease and speed of our mobility: our capacity to walk on two legs, and then to ride on animals, sail on boats, chug across the land and fly through the air, all to procure for ourselves the food and materials we wanted.
  5. (linguistics, transitive) To be indexical for (some situation or state of affairs); to indicate.
    • 2008, Haruko Minegishi Cook, Socializing Identities Through Speech Style, page 22:
      For example, the feature I indexes the current speaker in the speech event and you, the current addressee.
  6. (computing) To access a value in a data container by an index.

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Translations[edit]

to take stock — see inventory

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Czech[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

index m inan

  1. index (alphabetical listing of items and their location)
    Synonym: rejstřík
  2. (economics) index
    index spotřebitelských cen ― consumer price index
  3. (computing, databases) index (a data structure that improves the performance of operations on a table)

Declension[edit]

Declension of index (hard masculine inanimate)
singular plural
nominative index indexy
genitive indexu indexů
dative indexu indexům
accusative index indexy
vocative indexe indexy
locative indexu indexech
instrumental indexem indexy

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Further reading[edit]

  • index in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
  • index in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989

Dutch[edit]

Dutch Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia nl

Etymology[edit]

From Middle Dutch index, from Latin index.

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /ˈɪn.dɛks/
  • Audio(file)
  • Hyphenation: in‧dex

Noun[edit]

index m (plural indexen or indices, diminutive indexje n)

  1. index (list)
  2. index (number or coefficient representing various relations)
  3. (medicine, anatomy) index finger
    Synonym: wijsvinger

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French[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Latin index (“pointer, indicator”), from indicō (“point out, show”).

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Noun[edit]

index m (plural index)

  1. index
  2. forefinger
  3. the welcome page of a web site, typically index.html, index.htm or index.php

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Hungarian[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from Latin index.[1]

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): [ˈindɛks]
  • Hyphenation: in‧dex
  • Rhymes: -ɛks

Noun[edit]

index (plural indexek)

  1. (automotive) turn signal (US), indicator (UK) (each of the flashing lights on each side of a vehicle which indicate a turn is being made to left or right, or a lane change)
    Synonym: irányjelző
  2. pointer, hand, indicator (a needle or dial on a device)
    Synonyms: mutató, kar
  3. (higher education) transcript, report card, course report (in higher education)
    Synonym: leckekönyv
    Coordinate term: (in lower education) ellenőrző
  4. index (an alphabetical listing of items and their location, usually at the end of publications)
    Synonyms: névmutató, tárgymutató, szómutató
  5. ban, blacklist (a list of books that was banned)

Declension[edit]

Inflection (stem in -e-, front unrounded harmony)
singular plural
nominative index indexek
accusative indexet indexeket
dative indexnek indexeknek
instrumental indexszel indexekkel
causal-final indexért indexekért
translative indexszé indexekké
terminative indexig indexekig
essive-formal indexként indexekként
essive-modal — —
inessive indexben indexekben
superessive indexen indexeken
adessive indexnél indexeknél
illative indexbe indexekbe
sublative indexre indexekre
allative indexhez indexekhez
elative indexből indexekből
delative indexről indexekről
ablative indextől indexektől
non-attributive
possessive - singular 		indexé indexeké
non-attributive
possessive - plural 		indexéi indexekéi
Possessive forms of index
possessor single possession multiple possessions
1st person sing. indexem indexeim
2nd person sing. indexed indexeid
3rd person sing. indexe indexei
1st person plural indexünk indexeink
2nd person plural indexetek indexeitek
3rd person plural indexük indexeik

Derived terms[edit]

Compound words
Expressions

References[edit]

  1. ^ 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[edit]

  • index in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (‘The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN

Latin[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From in + the root of dīcere (“to indicate”) +‎ -s. Compare iūdex.

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

index m or f (genitive indicis); third declension

  1. A pointer, indicator.
  2. The index finger, forefinger.
    Synonym: digitus salūtāris
  3. (of books) An index, list, catalogue, table, summary, digest.
  4. (of books) A title, superscription.
  5. A sign, indication, proof, mark, token, index.
    Synonyms: signum, indicium
  6. An informer, discoverer, director, talebearer, guide, witness, betrayer, spy.
    Synonym: trāditor
  7. (of paintings or statues) An inscription.

Declension[edit]

Third-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative index indicēs
Genitive indicis indicum
Dative indicī indicibus
Accusative indicem indicēs
Ablative indice indicibus
Vocative index indicēs

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References[edit]

  • “index”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “index”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • index 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)
  • index in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎[2], London: Macmillan and Co.
    • the title of a book: index, inscriptio libri
  • “index”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • “index”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray
  • “index”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

Romanian[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from Latin index. Doublet of indice and indiciu.

Noun[edit]

index n (plural indexuri)

  1. index

Declension[edit]

Declension of index
singular plural
indefinite articulation definite articulation indefinite articulation definite articulation
nominative/accusative (un) index indexul (niște) indexuri indexurile
genitive/dative (unui) index indexului (unor) indexuri indexurilor
vocative indexule indexurilor

Swedish[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from Latin index.

Noun[edit]

index n

  1. index

Declension[edit]

Declension of index 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative index indexet index indexen
Genitive index indexets index indexens

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