FromLatinredux(“that returns”), fromredūcō(“to bring back”). The word may have re-entered popular usage in the United States with the 1971 publication of the novelRabbit Redux byJohn Updike,[1][2] although it had previously been used in medicine, literary titles, and product names.
redux (notcomparable)
- (of a topic, attributive, postpositive)Redone, restored, brought back, orrevisited.
After an unusually cold August, September felt like summerredux as a heatwave sent temperatures soaring.
2004, Robert A. Levy,Shakedown: How Corporations, Government, and Trial Lawyers Abuse the Judicial Process,page265:10. It's MicrosoftRedux All Over Again. Maybe the fat lady hasn't crooned the final note, but the petite lady who carried the most weight, US District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly, wrote the denouement to the Microsoft antitrust fiasco.
redone, restored, brought back, or revisited
redux (pluralreduxes)
- A theme or topic redone, restored, brought back, or revisited.
2004, Todd S. Jenkins,Free Jazz and Free Improvisation: An Encyclopedia, page234:With the exception of the leader's boppish title tune, the album is filled with anarchistic jazzreduxes of Nichols, Ellington, Kurt Weill, and Cole Porter.
2021 July 23, Ellie Robinson, “Coldplay shoot for the stars with their cinematic new track ‘Coloratura’”, inNME[1]:The band chased the video up with an acousticredux of the track, as well as performances onThe Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon and Macy’s annualFourth Of July Spectacular in New York.
Fromredūcō(“to leador bring back”) +-s.
- (Classical Latin)IPA(key): [ˈrɛ.dʊks]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical)IPA(key): [ˈrɛː.duks]
- In normal usage, thee is short:rĕdux. Pre-Classically, however (specifically inPlautus), the first syllable scanned heavy. This can be written with a macron (rēdux), although it is possible the consonant rather than the vowel was long (compare the alternative spellingreddux).
redux (genitivereducis);third-declension one-termination adjective
- (active voice, mostly as an epithet ofIuppiter and ofFortūna, in the poets and in inscriptions) that leadsor brings back, that returns
- (passive voice, frequent and Classical Latin) that is ledor brought back (from slavery, imprisonment, from a distance, etc.), come back, returned, that has returned
Third-declension one-termination adjective.
- “rĕdux”, inCharlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879),A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “redux”, inCharlton T. Lewis (1891),An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- "redux", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’sGlossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- “rĕdux”, inGaffiot, Félix (1934),Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, pages1,328/1–2.
- “redux”, inHarry Thurston Peck, editor (1898),Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “redux”, inWilliam Smith, editor (1848),A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray
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