audax

From Latin audāx, via Italian.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɔː.dæks/

audax (plural audaxes)

1. (cycling) A non-competitive long-distance (often over 200 km) cycling event.
   • 2019, Emily Chappell, Where There's a Will:

     […] the self-acknowledged stereotype of the audaxer as a socially awkward middle-aged man, […] carefully avoiding eye contact as a volunteer serves him his cup of tea and plate of baked beans in one of the draughty village halls that typically host audax controls.

   • 2023 January 15, Paul Norman, “Everything you need to know about audax riding: events, brevet cards and bike setup explained”, in BikeRadar‎^[1]:

     Probably the best-known aspect of audaxes is the brevet card. This is a small card you must have stamped at various checkpoints, called controls, along the route, to prove you’ve ridden the audax, completed each section within the time limit and not taken the train.

• audaxer

Unadapted borrowing from Latin audāx.

audax m (invariable)

1. audax

From audeō +‎ -āx.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈau̯.daːks/, [ˈäu̯d̪äːks̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈau̯.daks/, [ˈäːu̯d̪äks]

audāx (genitive audācis, comparative audācior, superlative audācissimus, adverb audāciter or audācter); third-declension one-termination adjective

1. bold, audacious, daring

   Synonyms: audēns, prōmptus, bellicus

   Antonyms: timidus, pavidus

2. presumptuous

Audax can mean daring in two senses: courageous, spirited and foolhardy, presumptuous, rash.

Third-declension one-termination adjective.

• “audax”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “audax”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• audax 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)
• audax in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.