Ex

See also: Appendix:Variations of "ex"

English

Noun

Ex (plural Exes)

1. Alternative letter-case form of ex.

German

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɛks/

• Audio (Germany (Berlin)):

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Etymology 1

Clipping of Exfreund or Exmann.

Noun

Ex m (strong, genitive Ex, plural Exe)

1. (informal) ex (male former romantic partner)

   Synonym: Verflossener

Declension

Declension of Ex [masculine, strong]

	singular			plural
	indef.	def.	noun	def.	noun
nominative	ein	der	Ex	die	Exe
genitive	eines	des	Ex	der	Exe
dative	einem	dem	Ex	den	Exen
accusative	einen	den	Ex	die	Exe

Etymology 2

Clipping of Exfreundin or Exfrau.

Noun

Ex f (genitive Ex, plural Exen)

1. (informal) ex (female former romantic partner)

   Synonym: Verflossene

Declension

Declension of Ex [feminine]

	singular			plural
	indef.	def.	noun	def.	noun
nominative	eine	die	Ex	die	Exen
genitive	einer	der	Ex	der	Exen
dative	einer	der	Ex	den	Exen
accusative	eine	die	Ex	die	Exen

Etymology 3

Clipping of Extemporale.

Noun

Ex f (genitive Ex, plural Exen)

1. (informal, Bavaria) an unannounced performance test of pupils in school

   Synonyms: Stegreifaufgabe, unangekündigter Leistungsnachweis

Declension

Declension of Ex [feminine]

	singular			plural
	indef.	def.	noun	def.	noun
nominative	eine	die	Ex	die	Exen
genitive	einer	der	Ex	der	Exen
dative	einer	der	Ex	den	Exen
accusative	eine	die	Ex	die	Exen

Further reading

• “Ex”, in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache‎^[1] (in German)

Old English

Alternative forms

• Exa

Etymology

From Proto-Brythonic *Uɨsk.

Proper noun

Ex m

1. Exe (a river in Somerset and Devon, England)

Derived terms

• Exanċeaster

Descendants

• English: Exe

Further reading

• Joseph Bosworth; T. Northcote Toller (1898), “Ex”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary (in Old English), second edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Pennsylvania German

Noun

Ex

1. plural of Ax