different between lynx vs jynx

English

Etymology

From Middle English lynx, from Latin lynx, from Ancient Greek ???? (lúnx), from Proto-Indo-European *lewk- (“white; light; bright”), because of the cat's glowing eyes and ability to see in the dark. Replaced Old English lox as the animal died out in Britain during the Middle Ages.

Pronunciation

• enPR: l?ngks, IPA^(key): /l??ks/
• Homophone: links
• Rhymes: -??ks

Noun

lynx (plural lynxes or lynx)

1. Any of several medium-sized wild cats, mostly of the genus Lynx.

Derived terms

Translations

Further reading

• lynx on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Lynx on Wikispecies.Wikispecies

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch linx, from Latin lynx, from Ancient Greek ???? (lúnx).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /l??ks/
• Hyphenation: lynx
• Rhymes: -??ks
• Homophone: links

Noun

lynx m (plural lynxen, diminutive lynxje n)

1. lynx, felid of the genus Lynx, in particular the Eurasian lynx (Lynx lynx); sometimes used of other medium-sized felids with large, plumed ears.

Synonyms

• los (dated)

Derived terms

• Canadese lynx
• Europese lynx
• Iberische lynx
• pardellynx
• rode lynx
• Spaanse lynx
• woestijnlynx

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin, from Ancient Greek ???? (lúnx)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /l??ks/

Noun

lynx m (plural lynx)

1. a lynx

Synonyms

• loup-cervier

Derived terms

• œil de lynx

Further reading

• “lynx” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ???? (lúnx).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /lynks/, [l??ks?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /links/, [li?ks]

Noun

lynx m or f (genitive lyncis); third declension

1. A lynx

   Colla lyncum.

   The necks of the lynxes.

   • Carmina (also Odes) by Horace (Latin text with English translations)

     Quin et Prometheus et Pelopis parens

     dulci laborem decipitur sono

     nec curat Orion leones

     aut timidos agitare lyncas

     Prometheus too and Pelops' sire

     In listening lose the sense of woe;

     Orion hearkens to the lyre,

     And lets the lynx and lion go.

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Descendants

References

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

Middle English

Alternative forms

• linx, lenx

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin lynx, from Ancient Greek ???? (lúnx).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /links/, [li?ks]

Noun

lynx (plural lenxis or lynces)

1. lynx

Descendants

• English: lynx
• Scots: lynx (obsolete)

References

• “linx, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-08-24.

English

Alternative forms

• (adaptations of the Latin nominative singular, iynx) iynx [in the 19th century], jynx [from the 17th century onwards]
• (adaptations of the Latin stem, iyng-) iyng, jyng [both disused after the 17th century]

Etymology

An adaptation of the Latin iynx (“wryneck”), itself an adaptation of the Ancient Greek ???? (íunx, “Eurasian wryneck”, “Jynx torquilla”; figuratively “a spell or charm”, “passionate yearning”), which see for an explanation of the development of its senses.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d????ks/
• Homophone: jinx
• Rhymes: -??ks

Noun

jynx (plural jynges)

1. A bird, the wryneck, once thought a bird of ill omen (Jynx torquilla).
   • 1649, George Daniel, Trinarchodia: Henry V, line ccxcv:

     Where not a Silver Iyng, or Pigeon, fell To Pay the Markman.

   • 1706, John Kersey (editor), Phillips’s New World of Words, “Jynx”:

     Jynx, the Wry-neck, or Emmet-hunter, or as some say, the Wag-tail.

   • 1708, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London XXVI, page 123:

     The Jynx or Wryneck…I first heard this year on March 29.

   • 1845, The Zoologist: A Miscellany of Natural History III, page 1,107:

     Its sharp and harsh cry, resembling a repetition of Jynx, Jynx, Jynx.

   • 1857, Samuel Birch, History of Ancient Pottery (1858), volume I, page 297:

     A youth or females hold a bird, supposed to be the iynx, in their hands.

2. (transferred sense) A charm or spell.

   Synonym: jinx

   • ante 1693, Sir Thomas Urquhart (translator), François Rabelais (author), The Third Book of the Works of Mr. Francis Rabelais, chapter i, page 23:

     These are the Philtres, Allurements, Jynges, Inveiglements [les philtres, iynges, et attraictz], Baits, and Enticements of Love.

3. The name of an order of spiritual intelligences in ancient “Chaldaic” philosophy.
   • 1655, Thomas Stanley, The History of the Chaldaick Philosophy (1701), page 17/2:

     Then is the Intelligible Jynx; next which are the Synoches, the Empyreal, the Ætherial and the Material; after the Synoches are the Teletarchs…Intelligent Jynges do themselves also understand from the Father By unspeakable Counsels being moved so as to understand.

Derived terms

• jinx

Related terms

• jyngine

Translations

References

• NED V (H–K; 1st ed., 1901), § 3 (J), page 646/3, “Jynx”