different between onyx vs onycha

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

Borrowed from Latin onycha.

Noun

onycha (uncountable)

1. (obsolete) the operculum of kinds of strombus or muricid, smoked as an ingredient in the Mosaic incense and pre-modern medicine
2. (obsolete) The precious stone onyx.

Translations

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ???? (ónux) standing in the Book of Exodus 30, 34, in the accusative, translating in the Septuaginta  Hebrew ????????? (š???le?).

Noun

onycha f (genitive onychae); first declension (Medieval Latin)

1. onycha, the operculum of kinds of strombus or muricid, smoked ritually and medicinally

   Synonyms: unguis od?r?tus, blatta byzant?na, blatta byzantia, opercula cochle?rum

Declension

First-declension noun.

References

• onycha in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)