annex

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   An extra building or section added to a larger one

   The school built a new annex to hold three more classrooms.

2. 2
   verb

   To take control of a territory and make it part of your own country, often by force

   The empire annexed the neighbouring province after the war.

3. 3
   verb

   To add or attach something to a larger thing

   She annexed a list of references to the end of her report.

Simplified etymology

Annex comes from Latin annectere, “connect,” formed from ad-, “to,” and nectere, “tie” or “fasten.” It entered English in the late Middle Ages.

From Middle English annexen, anexen, from Old French annexer (“to join”), from Medieval Latin annexāre, infinitive of annexō, frequentative of Latin annectō (“bind to”), from ad (“to”) + nectō (“tie, bind”). Compare the rare annect. Doublet of adnex.

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