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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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