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From Mussolini's idea of "an axis around which nations could assemble".

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h2eǵ-? Proto-Indo-European *-os Proto-Indo-European *h2eḱs-der. Proto-Italic *aksis Latin axisbor. English axis Borrowed from Latin axis (“axle, axis”) in the 16th century. Via Latin cognate with ala, aisle, atelier. Via Proto-Indo-European *h2eḱs- cognate with inherited English axle and borrowed axo-, axon.

From Latin, name of an Indian animal mentioned by the Roman senator Pliny.

159 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Albanian: aks — geometry: imaginary line
• Albanian: bosht — geometry: imaginary line
• Arabic: مِحْوَر (miḥwar) — geometry: imaginary line
• Armenian: առանցք (aṙancʻkʻ) — geometry: imaginary line
• Asturian: exa — geometry: imaginary line
• Azerbaijani: mehvər — geometry: imaginary line
• Azerbaijani: ox — geometry: imaginary line
• Bashkir: күсәр (küsər) — geometry: imaginary line
• Belarusian: вось (vosʹ) — geometry: imaginary line
• Bengali: অক্ষ (okkho) — geometry: imaginary line
• Bulgarian: ос (os) — geometry: imaginary line
• Burmese: ဝင်ရိုး (wang-rui:) — geometry: imaginary line
• Catalan: eix — geometry: imaginary line
• Chinese Mandarin: 軸 /轴 (zhóu) — geometry: imaginary line
• Chinese Mandarin: 軸心 /轴心 (zhóuxīn) — geometry: imaginary line
• Chuvash: тӗнӗл (tĕnĕl) — geometry: imaginary line
• Czech: osa — geometry: imaginary line
• Danish: akse — geometry: imaginary line
• Dutch: as — geometry: imaginary line
• Esperanto: akso — geometry: imaginary line
• Estonian: telg — geometry: imaginary line
• Faroese: ásur — geometry: imaginary line
• Finnish: akseli — geometry: imaginary line
• French: axe — geometry: imaginary line
• West-Frisian: as — geometry: imaginary line
• Galician: eixe — geometry: imaginary line
• Georgian: ღერძი (ɣerʒi) — geometry: imaginary line
• German: Achse — geometry: imaginary line
• Gothic: 𐌰𐌷𐍃𐌰 (ahsa) — geometry: imaginary line
• Greek: άξονας (áxonas) — geometry: imaginary line
• Ancient Greek: ἄξων (áxōn) — geometry: imaginary line
• Hebrew: ציר (tzyr) — geometry: imaginary line
• Hindi: धुरी (dhurī) — geometry: imaginary line
• Hindi: अक्ष (akṣ) — geometry: imaginary line
• Hungarian: tengely — geometry: imaginary line
• Icelandic: ás — geometry: imaginary line
• Icelandic: möndull — geometry: imaginary line
• Ido: axo — geometry: imaginary line
• Indonesian: poros — geometry: imaginary line
• Indonesian: aksis — geometry: imaginary line
• Inuktitut: ᓈᓴᐅᑎᖃᕐᕕᒃ (naasaotiqarfik) — geometry: imaginary line
• Italian: asse — geometry: imaginary line
• Japanese: 軸 (jiku) — geometry: imaginary line
• Kazakh: білік (bılık) — geometry: imaginary line
• Kazakh: белағаш (belağaş) — geometry: imaginary line
• Kazakh: белдік (beldık) — geometry: imaginary line
• Kazakh: өс (ös) — geometry: imaginary line
• Khmer: អ័ក្ស (ak) — geometry: imaginary line
• Korean: 축 (chuk) — geometry: imaginary line
• Kyrgyz: ок (ok) — geometry: imaginary line
• Kyrgyz: ось (os) — geometry: imaginary line
• Lao: ແກນ (kǣn) — geometry: imaginary line
• Latvian: ass — geometry: imaginary line
• Lithuanian: ašis — geometry: imaginary line
• Lombard: assa — geometry: imaginary line
• Macedonian: о́ска (óska) — geometry: imaginary line
• Malay: paksi — geometry: imaginary line
• Malayalam: അച്ചുതണ്ട് (accutaṇṭŭ) — geometry: imaginary line
• Māori: tuaka — geometry: imaginary line
• Norwegian Bokmål: akse — geometry: imaginary line
• Norwegian Nynorsk: akse — geometry: imaginary line
• Occitan: axe — geometry: imaginary line
• Persian: محور (mehvar) — geometry: imaginary line
• Persian: آسه (âse) — geometry: imaginary line
• Plautdietsch: Auss — geometry: imaginary line
• Polish: oś — geometry: imaginary line
• Portuguese: eixo — geometry: imaginary line
• Romanian: axă — geometry: imaginary line
• Russian: ось (osʹ) — geometry: imaginary line
• Sanskrit: अक्ष (akṣa) — geometry: imaginary line
• Serbo-Croatian: оса — geometry: imaginary line
• Serbo-Croatian: о̑с — geometry: imaginary line
• Serbo-Croatian: osa — geometry: imaginary line
• Serbo-Croatian: ȏs — geometry: imaginary line
• Slovak: os — geometry: imaginary line
• Slovene: os — geometry: imaginary line
• Spanish: eje — geometry: imaginary line
• Swedish: axel — geometry: imaginary line
• Tagalog: taluhog — geometry: imaginary line
• Tagalog: aksis — geometry: imaginary line
• Tajik: тир (tir) — geometry: imaginary line
• Telugu: అక్షము (akṣamu) — geometry: imaginary line
• Thai: แกน (gɛɛn) — geometry: imaginary line
• Turkish: eksen — geometry: imaginary line
• Turkmen: ok — geometry: imaginary line
• Ukrainian: вісь (visʹ) — geometry: imaginary line
• Urdu: محور (mehvar) — geometry: imaginary line
• Uzbek: oʻq — geometry: imaginary line
• Vietnamese: trục — geometry: imaginary line
• Welsh: echel — geometry: imaginary line
• Yiddish: אַקס (aks) — geometry: imaginary line
• Armenian: առանցք (aṙancʻkʻ) — basis of space or part of graph
• Bulgarian: ос (os) — basis of space or part of graph
• Czech: osa — basis of space or part of graph
• Dutch: as — basis of space or part of graph
• Esperanto: akso — basis of space or part of graph
• Estonian: telg — basis of space or part of graph
• Faroese: ásur — basis of space or part of graph
• Finnish: akseli — basis of space or part of graph
• French: axe — basis of space or part of graph
• West-Frisian: as — basis of space or part of graph
• Georgian: ღერძი (ɣerʒi) — basis of space or part of graph
• German: Achse — basis of space or part of graph
• Greek: άξονας (áxonas) — basis of space or part of graph
• Hebrew: ציר (tzyr) — basis of space or part of graph
• Icelandic: ás — basis of space or part of graph
• Italian: asse — basis of space or part of graph
• Khmer: អ័ក្ស (ak) — basis of space or part of graph
• Latvian: ass — basis of space or part of graph
• Macedonian: о́ска (óska) — basis of space or part of graph
• Malay: paksi — basis of space or part of graph
• Māori: tuaka — basis of space or part of graph
• Norwegian Bokmål: akse — basis of space or part of graph
• Norwegian Nynorsk: akse — basis of space or part of graph
• Persian: آسه (âse) — basis of space or part of graph
• Polish: oś — basis of space or part of graph
• Portuguese: eixo — basis of space or part of graph
• Russian: ось (osʹ) — basis of space or part of graph
• Serbo-Croatian: оса — basis of space or part of graph
• Serbo-Croatian: осо̀вина — basis of space or part of graph
• Serbo-Croatian: osa — basis of space or part of graph
• Serbo-Croatian: osòvina — basis of space or part of graph
• Slovak: os — basis of space or part of graph
• Slovene: os — basis of space or part of graph
• Lower Sorbian: wós — basis of space or part of graph
• Upper Sorbian: wóska — basis of space or part of graph
• Spanish: eje — basis of space or part of graph
• Swedish: axel — basis of space or part of graph
• Telugu: అక్షము (akṣamu) — basis of space or part of graph
• Turkish: eksen — basis of space or part of graph
• Welsh: echel — basis of space or part of graph
• Catalan: axis — second cervical vertebra
• Chinese Mandarin: 樞椎 /枢椎 (shūzhuī) — second cervical vertebra
• Czech: čepovec — second cervical vertebra
• Czech: axis — second cervical vertebra
• Dutch: draaier — second cervical vertebra
• Faroese: navarsgeisli — second cervical vertebra
• Finnish: kiertonikama — second cervical vertebra
• Finnish: aksis — second cervical vertebra
• Greek: άξονας (áxonas) — second cervical vertebra
• Greek: επιστροφεύς (epistroféfs) — second cervical vertebra
• Ido: axoido — second cervical vertebra
• Italian: epistrofeo — second cervical vertebra
• Kazakh: білікомыртқа (bılıkomyrtqa) — second cervical vertebra
• Khmer: អ័ក្ស (ak) — second cervical vertebra
• Malay: tulang paksi — second cervical vertebra
• Malay: epistrofeus — second cervical vertebra
• Persian: آسه (âse) — second cervical vertebra
• Polish: obrotnik — second cervical vertebra
• Portuguese: áxis — second cervical vertebra
• Russian: эпистрофей (epistrofej) — second cervical vertebra
• Russian: аксис (aksis) — second cervical vertebra
• Spanish: axis — second cervical vertebra
• Swedish: tappkota — second cervical vertebra
• Finnish: akseli — psychiatry: form of classification and descriptions of mental disorders
• Indonesian: aksis — psychiatry: form of classification and descriptions of mental disorders
• Finnish: keskiranka — botany: main stem or central part
• Finnish: akseli — botany: main stem or central part
• Russian: ствол (stvol) — botany: main stem or central part