Pax

The Latin word pax means "peace". It is also the name of the goddess of Peace in Roman mythology. Together with the (Romanized) name of a nation, it refers to a period of peace or at least stability enforced by this nation, such as:

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• Pax Americana
• Pax Britannica
• Pax Romana
• Pax Sinica
• Pax Mongolica
• Pax Hispanica

Other meanings include:

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• Ferdinand Albin Pax (1858?1942), German botanist.
• PaX, the Linux kernel security patch
• PAX (Penny Arcade Exposition), an annual video game convention held at the Meydenbauer Center at Bellevue, Washington. Run by the creators of the Penny Arcade comic.
• i, a U.S. television network (formerly the PAX Network)
• pax - an abbreviation for "passengers" used by the travel industry.
• pax - portable archive interchange

Latin: Latin is an Indo-European language originally spoken in the region around Rome called Latium. It gained great importance as the formal language of the Roman Empire. All Romance languages are descended from Latin, and many words based on Latin are found in other modern languages such as English. The ...

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Roman mythology: Roman mythology can be considered as two parts. One part, largely later and literary, consists of whole-cloth borrowings from Greek mythology. The other, largely early and cultic, functioned in very different ways from its Greek counterpart....

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