redux

From Latin redux (“that returns”), from redūcō (“to bring back”). The word may have re-entered popular usage in the United States with the 1971 publication of the novel Rabbit Redux by John Updike,[1][2] although it had previously been used in medicine, literary titles, and product names.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɹiːdʌks/, /ɹiˈdʌks/

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• Rhymes: -ʌks

redux (not comparable)

1. (of a topic, attributive, postpositive) Redone, restored, brought back, or revisited.

   After an unusually cold August, September felt like summer redux as a heatwave sent temperatures soaring.

   • 2004, Robert A. Levy, Shakedown: How Corporations, Government, and Trial Lawyers Abuse the Judicial Process, page 265:

     10. It's Microsoft Redux 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.

redux (plural reduxes)

1. A theme or topic redone, restored, brought back, or revisited.
   • 2004, Todd S. Jenkins, Free Jazz and Free Improvisation: An Encyclopedia (page 234)

     With the exception of the leader's boppish title tune, the album is filled with anarchistic jazz reduxes of Nichols, Ellington, Kurt Weill, and Cole Porter.

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• redux (literary term) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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From redūcō (“I lead or bring back”).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈre.duks/, [ˈrɛd̪ʊks̠]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈre.duks/, [ˈrɛːd̪uks]

redux (genitive reducis); third-declension one-termination adjective

1. (active, mostly as an epithet of Iuppiter and of Fortūna, in the poets and in inscriptions) that leads or brings back, that returns
2. (passive, frequent and Classical Latin) that is led or brought back (from slavery, imprisonment, from a distance, etc.), come back, returned, that has returned

• In normal usage, the e is short: rĕdux. Pre-Classically, however (specifically in Plautus), the e occurred long: rēdux.

Third-declension one-termination adjective.

• The ablative singular (in all genders) can be reduce or reducī.

• → English: redux
• Italian: reduce

• “rĕdux”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “redux”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• redux in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• rĕdux in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 1,328/1–2
• “redux”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “redux”, in William Smith, editor (1848) A Dictionary of Greek Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray