different between onyx vs jadeite

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)

1. (mineralogy) A banded variety of chalcedony, a cryptocrystalline form of quartz.
2. A jet-black color, named after the gemstone.

3. Any of various lycaenid butterflies of the genus Horaga.

Translations

Adjective

onyx (not comparable)

1. jet-black
   • , Genesis, 2:12

     And the gold of that land is good: there is bdellium and the onyx stone.

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

1. onyx, yellow marble
2. A yellowish precious stone
3. 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)

1. Alternative form of oniche

Portuguese

Noun

onyx m (plural onyx)

1. Obsolete spelling of ónix (used in Portugal until September 1911 and died out in Brazil during the 1920s).

English

Etymology

jade +? -ite

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?d?e?da?t/

Noun

jadeite (countable and uncountable, plural jadeites)

1. (mineralogy) A pyroxene mineral, a sodium aluminium silicate with the chemical formula Na(Al,Fe³⁺)Si₂O₆, found in metamorphic rocks.

Related terms

• jadeitic
• jaditic

Translations

See also

• jadeite on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• nephrite

Further reading

• David Barthelmy (1997–2021) , “Jadeite”, in Webmineral Mineralogy Database
• “jadeite”, in Mindat.org?^[1], Hudson Institute of Mineralogy, 2000–2021.