onyx

English

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Etymology

Before 1300 as onix, in about 1250 as oneche, from Old French oniche or onix, or from Latin onyx, from Greek ὄνυξ (onyx).

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈɔnɪks/

Noun

onyx (countable and uncountable; plural onyxes)

1. (mineralogy) A banded variety of chalcedony, a cryptocrystalline form of quartz.

Translations

a banded variety of chalcedony

• Arabic: جزع (ar) (jazʕ)
• Basque: onize (eu)
• Catalan: ònix (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 縞瑪瑙 (cmn), 缟玛瑙 (cmn) (gǎomǎnǎo)

• Czech: onyx (cs) m
• Danish: onyks
• Dutch: onyx (nl) m
• Finnish: onyksi (fi)
• French: onyx (fr) m
• Galician: ónix (gl) f
• German: Onyx (de) m
• Hebrew: שוהם m
• Hindi: सुलैमानी पत्थर (hi) (sulaimānī patthar)
• Ido: onixo (io)
• Latin: onyx (la)

• Latvian: onikss
• Lithuanian: oniksas
• Norwegian: onyx (no) m
• Oriya: kwaja pathara
• Persian: عقیق سلیمانی (fa) (aqiq-e soleymâni)
• Polish: onyks (pl) m
• Portuguese: ónix (pt)
• Romanian: onix (ro) m
• Russian: оникс (ru) (óniks) m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: оникс (sh) m

  Roman: oniks (sh) m

• Spanish: ónix (es) f, ónice (es) f, ónique (es) f
• Swahili: sardoniki (sw)
• Tagalog: onise (tl)
• Turkish: oniks (tr)
• Urdu: سلیمانی پتھر (ur) (sulaimānī patthar)

Adjective

onyx (not comparable)

1. jet-black
   • 1611, King James Version of the Bible (Authorized Version)^[1], Genesis, 2:12

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

   • 1922, Michael Arlen, chapter 3/7/2, “Piracy”: A Romantic Chronicle of These Days^[2]:

     There was no moon, only stars set brilliantly in the soft black onyx of the sky : a black night and very silent on Cimiez ; and a black and silent prospect from the verandah […]

See also

• sardonyx

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Latin

Noun

onyyx (genitive onychis); f, third declension

1. onyx, yellow marble

Inflection

Number	Singular	Plural
nominative	onyx	onychēs
genitive	onychis	onychum
dative	onychī	onychibus
accusative	onychem	onychēs
ablative	onyche	onychibus
vocative	onyx	onychēs