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Latin for peace, usually invoked right before someone breaks it.
means A truce or peace between parties — often informal, and often more fragile than it sounds.
from Straight from Latin 'pax' meaning peace, the same root that gives English 'pacify,' 'pacific,' and 'peace' itself (via French, which softened the x-sound over time). In Roman religion, Pax was even a goddess, with her own temple — peace literally personified and worshipped, though Rome itself spent much of its history at war.
- origin
- Roman goddess of peace, Pax
- usage
- basis for words like pacify and pacify
- irony
- often named after treaties that didn't last
- phrase
- pax romana meant peace by conquest