vindex
noun
vindex is a noun meaning “An official who supervised tax collection in the ancient Roman Empire” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled V-I-N-D-E-X, and it appears about once in every 35 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of vindex is vindices.
What does vindex mean?
noun
- 1
An official who supervised tax collection in the ancient Roman Empire.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of vindex
- vindices plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is vindex?
Vindex appears about once in every 35 million words in written English, the 180,281st most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Where does vindex come from?
From Latin vindex.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).