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覚え方のコツ Memory Tip
pix は、聖体を納める小容器や試験用硬貨を入れる箱を指す pyx の異綴りとして扱われます。語源はギリシャ語 pyxis「箱」で、現代の日常語というより教会・貨幣検査の専門的な場面に現れます。写真 pictures の略として使われる口語的な pix とは由来も意味も別なので、ここでは「小箱」の pyx と結び付けて覚えましょう。
For this sense, connect pix with the more usual spelling pyx and with Greek pyxis, meaning “box.” Picture a small, carefully protected container rather than an ordinary large box. In church contexts, it can hold the consecrated Eucharistic bread; in historical minting contexts, a pyx held sample coins for testing. This specialized meaning is distinct from informal pix used as a shortened spelling of pictures. Remembering the unusual y in pyx helps anchor the older “small container” sense even when the variant spelling pix appears.
pix の類義語・関連語
pix の語源・成り立ち Etymology
ラテン語 pyxis（小箱）、さらにギリシャ語 pyxis（箱）→ pyxos（ツゲの木）に遡る。ツゲ材で作った小箱が原義。教会で聖体を保管する容器や、造幣局で試験用硬貨を入れる箱を指す。関連語: pyxis（蓋付き容器）、box（箱、同じくツゲ材由来説あり）。
In this specialized sense, pix is a variant spelling of pyx. Pyx came through Latin pyxis from Greek pyxis, “box,” which was related to pyxos, the box tree, because small containers could be made from its wood. The word became established for a vessel holding the consecrated Eucharistic bread and for a box containing sample coins submitted to an official assay or Trial of the Pyx.
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