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onyx
English
Etymology
From Middle English onix (c. 1300), earlier oniche (c. 1250), from Old French oniche or onix, from Latin onyx, from Ancient Greek ???? (ónux, “onyx”). Doublet of unguis.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??n?ks/
Noun
onyx (countable and uncountable, plural onyxes)
- (mineralogy) A banded variety of chalcedony, a cryptocrystalline form of quartz.
- A jet-black color, named after the gemstone.
- Any of various lycaenid butterflies of the genus Horaga.
Translations
Adjective
onyx (not comparable)
- jet-black
- , Genesis, 2:12
- And the gold of that land is good: there is bdellium and the onyx stone.
- , Genesis, 2:12
See also
- sardonyx
References
Latin
Etymology
From Ancient Greek ???? (ónux, “nail”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /?o.nyks/, [??n?ks?]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /?o.niks/, [???niks]
Noun
onyx m (genitive onychis); third declension
- onyx, yellow marble
- A yellowish precious stone
- The female of a mussel of the scallop species
Declension
Third-declension noun.
References
- onyx in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- onyx in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- onyx in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- onyx in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
Middle English
Noun
onyx (uncountable)
- Alternative form of oniche
Portuguese
Noun
onyx m (plural onyx)
- Obsolete spelling of ónix (used in Portugal until September 1911 and died out in Brazil during the 1920s).
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alabaster
English
Alternative forms
- alabastre (obsolete)
- alablaster (obsolete)
Etymology
From Middle English alabastre, from Old French alabastre, from Latin alabaster (“box for perfume made of alabaster”), from Ancient Greek ?????????? (alábastros), from earlier ????????? (alábastos, “vase made of alabaster”). This may further derive from Egyptian ?j-r-b?stjt (“vessel of the Egyptian goddess Bast”). The Latin suffix -aster is unrelated, but may have influenced the spelling of the borrowing from Ancient Greek (whence a direct loan could have been rendered as *alabastrus).
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?æl.??b??s.t?/, /?æl.??bæs.t?/
- (US) IPA(key): /?æl.??bæs.t?/
- Rhymes: -??st?(?), -æst?(?)
Noun
alabaster (usually uncountable, plural alabasters)
- A fine-grained white or lightly-tinted variety of gypsum, used ornamentally.
- (historical) A variety of calcite, translucent and sometimes banded.
- (color) An off-white colour, like that of alabaster.
Translations
Adjective
alabaster (not comparable)
- Made of alabaster.
- Resembling alabaster: white, pale, translucent.
Translations
Further reading
- alabaster on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Anagrams
- alabastre
Latin
Alternative forms
- alabastrum
Etymology
Borrowed from Ancient Greek ?????????? (alábastros), from earlier ????????? (alábastos, “vase made of alabaster”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /a.la?bas.ter/, [ä??ä?bäs?t??r]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /a.la?bas.ter/, [?l??b?st??r]
Noun
alabaster m (genitive alabastr?); second declension
- a box, tapering to a point at the top, for perfumes or unguents
Declension
Second-declension noun (nominative singular in -er).
Descendants
References
- alabaster in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- alabaster in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
- alabaster in The Perseus Project (1999) Perseus Encyclopedia?[3]
Middle English
Noun
alabaster
- Alternative form of alabastre
Polish
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin alabaster.
Noun
alabaster m inan
- alabaster
Declension
Derived terms
- alabastrowy
Further reading
- alabaster in Polish dictionaries at PWN
Serbo-Croatian
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin alabaster.
Noun
alabaster m (Cyrillic spelling ?????????)
- alabaster
- Synonyms: alabastar, ubjel
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