different between onyx vs ruby

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [??u?bi]
• Rhymes: -u?bi

Etymology 1

From Middle English ruby, rube, from Old French rubi, from Latin rubeus (“red”).

Noun

ruby (countable and uncountable, plural rubies)

1. A clear, deep, red variety of corundum, valued as a precious stone.
2. (obsolete) A red spinel.
3. A deep red colour.

4. (heraldry) The tincture red or gules.
5. (uncountable, printing, Britain, dated) The size of type between pearl and nonpareil, standardized as 5½-point.

   Synonym: (US) agate

6. A ruby hummer, a South American hummingbird, Clytolaema rubricauda.
7. A red bird-of-paradise, Paradisaea rubra.

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

Adjective

ruby (comparative more ruby, superlative most ruby)

1. Of a deep red colour.

Translations

Verb

ruby (third-person singular simple present rubies, present participle rubying, simple past and past participle rubied)

1. (transitive, poetic) To make red; to redden.

   • With sanguine drops the walls are rubied

See also

• (reds) red; blood red, brick red, burgundy, cardinal, carmine, carnation, cerise, cherry, cherry red, Chinese red, cinnabar, claret, crimson, damask, fire brick, fire engine red, flame, flamingo, fuchsia, garnet, geranium, gules, hot pink, incarnadine, Indian red, magenta, maroon, misty rose, nacarat, oxblood, pillar-box red, pink, Pompeian red, poppy, raspberry, red violet, rose, rouge, ruby, ruddy, salmon, sanguine, scarlet, shocking pink, stammel, strawberry, Turkey red, Venetian red, vermillion, vinaceous, vinous, violet red, wine ^{(Category: en:Reds)}
• carbuncle
• corundum
• spinel
• Ruby on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Further reading

• David Barthelmy (1997–2021) , “Ruby”, in Webmineral Mineralogy Database
• “ruby”, in Mindat.org?^[2], Hudson Institute of Mineralogy, 2000–2021.

Etymology 2

From the British 5.5-point font Ruby, used for annotations in printed documents.

Noun

ruby (plural rubies)

2. A pronunciation guide written above or beside Chinese or Japanese characters.

   Synonym: rubi

Translations

See also

Anagrams

• -bury, Bury, bury

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?rub?]

Noun

ruby

1. nominative/accusative/vocative/instrumental plural of rub

Middle English

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Old French rubi, itself borrowed from Latin rubeus.

Alternative forms

• rebe, ribe, rube, rubee, rubie, rybe, ryby

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?riu?bi?/, /?riu?be?/

Noun

ruby (plural rubies)

1. A ruby (red precious stone)
2. (figuratively) A precious individual.

Descendants

• English: ruby

References

• “rub?(e, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Etymology 2

Verb

ruby

1. Alternative form of robben

Silesian

Alternative forms

• hruby

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *grub?.

Adjective

ruby

1. fat, thick