different between strombus vs onycha

English

Wikispecies

Etymology

From Latin, from Ancient Greek ???????? (strómbos, “shell, conch, snail”).

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?st??m.b?s/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?st??m.b?s/

Noun

strombus (plural strombuses or strombi)

1. (zoology) Any of the genus Strombus of marine gastropods in which the shell has the outer lip dilated into a broad wing.

Anagrams

• substorm

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ???????? (strómbos, “shell, conch, snail”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?strom.bus/, [?s?(t?)??mb?s?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?strom.bus/, [?st???mbus]

Noun

strombus m (genitive stromb?); second declension

1. A kind of spiral snail

Declension

Second-declension noun.

References

• strombus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• strombus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

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)