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English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• МФА^(key): /ˈɪndɛks/

• Audio (US)

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Noun

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.
3. A movable finger on a gauge, scale, etc.
4. (printing) A symbol resembling a pointing hand, used to direct particular attention to a note or paragraph.
5. That which points out; that which shows, indicates, manifests, or discloses.
   • Arbuthnot

     Tastes are the indexes of the different qualities of plants.

6. A sign; an indication; a token.
   • Robert Louis Stevenson

     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. (science) A number representing a property or ratio, a coefficient.
   • 1963, Richard Feynman, “Chapter 26, Optics: The Principle of Least Time”, in The Feynman Lectures on Physics, volume I:

     In other words, we predict that the index for a new pair of materials can be obtained from the indexes of the individual materials, both against air or against vacuum.

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. (obsolete) A prologue indicating what follows.

    • "Ay me, what act, that roars so loud and thunders in the index?" (Hamlet III.4)

Synonyms

• (index finger): arrow-finger, demonstrator, forefinger, index finger, insignitor, lickpot, pointling, showing finger, teacher
• See also Thesaurus:index finger

Derived terms

• Banzhaf power index
• Herfindahl index
• h-index
• indexic
• indexical
• indexless
• index locorum
• index nominum
• index rerum
• index term
• index verborum
• ponderal index
• price index
• Quetelet index
• refractive index
• Rohrer's index
• Törnqvist index
• Townsend deprivation index

 

Related terms

• indicate
• indication
• indicator
• indicia

 

Translations

alphabetical listing

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linguistics: type of noun

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index finger — see forefinger

sign, indication, token

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economics: single number calculated from an array of prices or quantities

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science: number representing a property or ratio, a coefficient

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mathematics: raised suffix indicating a power.

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programming: key indicating location of data

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data structure

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See also

• (alphabetical listing): table of contents

References

• “index” in John A. Simpson and Edward S. C. Weiner, editors, The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1989, →ISBN.

Verb

1. (transitive) To arrange an index for something, especially a long text.
2. To inventory, to take stock.
3. Овај израз захтева дефиницију. Молим вас помозите и додајте дефиницију, затим уклоните текст {{rfdef}}.
   • 2019 новембар 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.

4. (linguistics, transitive) To be indexical for (some situation or state of affairs); to indicate.
   • 2008, Haruko Minegishi Cook, Socializing Identities Through Speech Style, strana 22:

     For example, the feature I indexes the current speaker in the speech event and you, the current addressee.

Derived terms

• indexer

Translations

to arrange an index

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to take stock — see inventory

Further reading

• index in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• index in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911

Anagrams

• nixed, xenid ^{(alphagram deinx)}

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Czech

Pronunciation

• МФА^(key): [ˈɪndɛks]

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  (file)

Noun

1. index
2. index

   index spotřebitelských cen — consumer price index

3. index

Synonyms

• (alphabetical listing): rejstřík

Related terms

• See dikce
• indexace
• indexový
• indexovat
• indexování
• indicie
• indikace
• indikátor
• indikovat

Further reading

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

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Dutch

Pronunciation

• Audio

  (file)

Noun

1. index

Derived terms

• brekingsindex

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French

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• МФА^(key): /ɛ̃d/

Noun

index (transliteration needed) m (plural index)

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

Further reading

• “index” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

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Hungarian

Etymology

Borrowed from Латински index.

Pronunciation

• МФА^(key): [ˈindɛks]
• Hyphenation: in‧dex

Noun

1. (automotive) turn signal (US), indicator (UK)

   Синоним: irányjelző

2. pointer, hand, indicator

   Синонимs: mutató, kar

3. (education) report card, course report

   Синоним: leckekönyv

4. index

   Синонимs: névmutató, tárgymutató, szómutató

5. ban, blacklist

Declension

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

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

• indexel
• indexes

 

Compound words

• árindex
• indexkép
• indexszám

 

Further reading

• Шаблон:R:BarcziOrszagh 1962

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Latin

Etymology

From indicō (“point out, indicate, show”), from in (“in, at, on; into”) + dicō (“indicate; dedicate; set apart”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) МФА^(key): /ˈin.deks/, [ˈɪn̪.d̪ɛks]

Noun

index (transliteration needed)

1. A pointer, indicator.
2. The index finger, forefinger.

   Синоним: digitus salūtāris

3. A sign, indication, proof, mark, token, index.
4. An informer, discoverer, director, talebearer, guide, witness, betrayer, spy.
5. (of books) A title, superscription.
6. (of books) An index, catalogue, table, list, summary, digest.
7. (of paintings or statues) An inscription.

Declension

Third declension..

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

Derived terms

• indicīna
• indicium
• indiculum

 

Related terms

• indicābilis
• indicātiō
• indicātīvus
• indicātor
• indicātūra
• indicō

 

Descendants

• Catalan: enze
• → Catalan: índex
• → Енглески: index
• → Француски: index, indice
• Италијански: endice
• → Италијански: indice
• → Ladin: indesc
• → Portuguese: índex, índice
• → Romanian: index, indice
• → Russian: и́ндекс (índeks)
• → Spanish: índex, índice

References

• 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, 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 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

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Swedish

Noun

1. an index

Declension

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