index – English noun declension

English noun forms of index

Noun: index
Singularindex
Pluralindexes; indices

Sample Sentences

  • The index of a book lists words or expressions and the pages of the book upon which they are to be found.
  • He isn't able to find the index of the book.
  • Among the gravity indexes is the severance of diplomatic relations.
  • Tastes are the Indexes of the different Qualities of Plants. [1731, John Arbuthnot, An Essay Concerning the Nature of Aliments, and the Choice of Them, According to the Different Constitutions of Human Bodies. […], London: […] J[acob] Tonson […], →OCLC:]
  • His son's empty guffaws […] struck him with pain as the indices of a weak mind. [1887, Robert Louis Stevenson, The Misadventures of John Nicholson:]
  • Their use of these words as epithets is an index of an appallingly low level of feminist awareness. [1984 December 22, Gayle Rubin, “Censored: Anti-Porn Laws And Women's Liberation”, in Gay Community News, volume 12, number 23, page 8:]
  • 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. [1963, Richard Feynman, “Chapter 26, Optics: The Principle of Least Time”, in The Feynman Lectures on Physics, volume I:]
  • The index of 2ℤ in ℤ is 2.
  • Ay me, what act, that roars so loud and thunders in the index? [c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene iv]:]

Nouns inflected like index

index,

Etymology

1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *h₁én
3. Proto-Italic *en
4. Old Latin en
5. Latin in
6. Proto-Indo-European *deyḱ-
7. Proto-Indo-European *déyḱeti
8. Proto-Italic *deikō
9. Latin dīcō
10. Proto-Indo-European *-s
11. Latin -s
12. Latin indexder.
13. English index
14. From Latin index (“a discoverer, informer, spy; of things, an indicator, the forefinger, a title, superscription”), from indicō (“point out, show”); see indicate. See: Latin Nouns 'index'.