appendix

See also: Appendix

English

Intestinal tract, with the vermiform appendix highlighted.

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin appendix.

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) enPR: ə-pĕn'dĭks, IPA^(key): /əˈpɛn.dɪks/
  • (pin–pen merger) IPA^(key): /əˈpɪn.dɪks/

• Audio (US):

  (file)

Noun

appendix (plural appendices or appendixes)

1. (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 […]

2. A text added to the end of a book or an article, containing additional information.

   Holonym: back matter

   Near-synonyms: supplement (sometimes synonymous), addendum

   Coordinate terms: afterword, epilogue, postscript

3. (anatomy) The vermiform appendix.
4. (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

 

Translations

text added to the end of a book or an article

• Arabic: مُلْحَق m (mulḥaq)
• Armenian: հավելված (hy) (havelvac)
• Asturian: apéndiz (ast) m
• Belarusian: дада́так m (dadátak)
• Bulgarian: приложе́ние (bg) n (priložénie)
• Catalan: apèndix (ca)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 附錄／附录 (fu⁶ luk⁶)

  Mandarin: 附錄／附录 (zh) (fùlù)

• Czech: příloha (cs) f, dodatek m
• Danish: appendiks
• Dutch: aanhangsel (nl), appendix (nl)
• Esperanto: alaĵo, aneksaĵo, anekso
• Finnish: liite (fi), jälkiteksti, täydennysosa
• French: annexe (fr) f, appendice (fr) m
• Galician: apéndice (gl) m
• German: Anhang (de) m, Beiheft (de) n
• Greek: παράρτημα (el) n (parártima)

  Ancient: ἐπινομίς f (epinomís)

• Hebrew: תוספת (he) (toséfet)
• Hindi: परिशिष्ट (hi) m (pariśiṣṭ)
• Hungarian: függelék (hu)
• Icelandic: bókarauki m, viðauki (is) m
• Irish: aguisín m, forscríbhinn f
• Italian: appendice (it) f
• Japanese: 付録 (ja) (ふろく, furoku)
• Korean: 부록(附錄) (ko) (burok)
• Macedonian: прилог m (prilog), додаток m (dodatok)
• Malayalam: അനുബന്ധം (ml) (anubandhaṁ)
• Maori: tāpiritanga, kupu āpiti, āpitihanga
• Norwegian: vedlegg (no) n, supplement (no)

  Bokmål: appendiks n

  Nynorsk: appendiks n

• Persian: ضمیمه (fa) (zamime), پیوست (fa) (peyvast)
• Polish: załącznik (pl) m, dodatek (pl) m, aneks (pl) m, uzupełnienie (pl) n, apendyks (pl) m, appendix (pl) m
• Portuguese: apêndice (pt) m
• Romanian: apendice (ro) n, anexă (ro) f
• Russian: приложе́ние (ru) n (priložénije), дополне́ние (ru) n (dopolnénije)
• Scottish Gaelic: eàrr-ràdh m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: дода́так m

  Roman: dodátak (sh) m

• Slovak: príloha f, dodatok m
• Slovene: priloga f, dodatek m
• Spanish: apéndice (es) m
• Swahili: kiambatisho
• Swedish: appendix (sv) n, tillägg (sv) n, bilaga (sv) c
• Tagalog: hugpong
• Tibetan: ལྷན་ཐབས (lhan thabs)
• Ukrainian: дода́ток m (dodátok)
• Uzbek: qoʻshimcha (uz), ilova (uz)
• Volapük: lenseidot (vo)
• Welsh: atodiad (cy) m

vermiform appendix — see vermiform appendix

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• Welsh: ^{(please verify)} ychwanegiad (cy) m

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin appendix.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌɑˈpɛn.dɪks/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Hyphenation: ap‧pen‧dix

Noun

appendix f (plural appendices)

1. an appendix, a section appended to the main body of a text or publication with peripheral information

   Synonym: aanhangsel

2. a vermiform appendix

   Synonym: wormvormig aanhangsel

3. 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^(key): /apˈpen.diks/, [äpˈpɛn̪d̪ɪks̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /apˈpen.diks/, [äpˈpɛn̪d̪iks]

Noun

appendix f (genitive appendicis); third declension

1. supplement, addition
2. appendage
3. barberry (shrub)

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	appendix	appendicēs
Genitive	appendicis	appendicum
Dative	appendicī	appendicibus
Accusative	appendicem	appendicēs
Ablative	appendice	appendicibus
Vocative	appendix	appendicēs

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^(key): /aˈpɛn.dɘks/
• Rhymes: -ɛndɘks
• Syllabification: a‧ppen‧dix

Noun

appendix m inan

1. (rare) appendix (any addition, particularly to a book)

   Synonyms: aneks, dodatek, uzupełnienie, załącznik

Declension

Declension of appendix

	singular	plural
nominative	appendix	appendiksy
genitive	appendiksu	appendiksów
dative	appendiksowi	appendiksom
accusative	appendix	appendiksy
instrumental	appendiksem	appendiksami
locative	appendiksie	appendiksach
vocative	appendiksie	appendiksy

Further reading

• appendix in Polish dictionaries at PWN