winged

See also: wingèd

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English winged, wenged (“having wings”), past participle of wingen, from the noun winge, wenge.

Alternative forms

• wingèd (chiefly poetry)

Pronunciation

• enPR: wĭng(ĭ)d
• IPA^(key): /wɪŋ(ɪ)d/

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• Rhymes: -ɪŋd, -ɪŋɪd

Adjective

winged (not comparable)

1. Having wings.
   • 2013 July 26, Nick Miroff, “Mexico gets a taste for eating insects …”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 7, page 32:

     The San Juan market is Mexico City's most famous deli of exotic meats, where an adventurous shopper can hunt down hard-to-find critters … But the priciest items in the market aren't the armadillo steaks or even the bluefin tuna. That would be the frozen chicatanas – giant winged ants – at around $500 a kilo.

2. Flying or soaring as if on wings.
3. Swift.
   • c. 1587–1588, [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire, London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act , scene ii:

     Come Tamburlain, now whet thy winged ſword
     And lift thy loftie arme into the cloudes,
     That it may reach the King of Perſeas crowne,
     And ſet it ſafe on my victorious head.

4. (in combination) having wings of a specified kind

   weak-winged

5. (in combination) having the specified number of wings

   The six-winged Seraphim are the angels closest to God.

Derived terms

• light-winged (adjective)
• winged word

Translations

having wings

• Armenian: թեւավոր (hy) (tʻewavor)
• Belarusian: крыла́сты (krylásty), крыла́ты (kryláty), скрыдла́ты (skrydláty)
• Bulgarian: крила́т (bg) (krilát)
• Catalan: alat (ca)
• Crimean Tatar: qanatlı
• Czech: křídlatý, okřídlený
• Dutch: gevleugeld (nl)
• French: ailé (fr)
• Galician: alado (gl)
• German: geflügelt (de)
• Greek:

  Ancient: πτερόεις (pteróeis)

• Hungarian: szárnyas (hu)
• Irish: sciathánach, eiteach
• Latin: ālātus, ālifer
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• Latvian: spārnots, spārnains
• Macedonian: крилест (krilest), крилат (krilat)
• Manx: skianagh
• Maori: whaiparirau
• Polish: uskrzydlony (pl), skrzydlaty (pl)
• Portuguese: alado (pt)
• Romanian: înaripat (ro)
• Russian: крыла́тый (ru) (krylátyj)
• Slovak: krídlatý, okrídlený (sk)
• Spanish: alado (es)
• Swahili: -enye mabawa
• Swedish: bevingad (sv)
• Turkish: kanatlı (tr)
• Ukrainian: крила́тий (krylátyj)
• Welsh: adeiniog, asgellog

Etymology 2

See wing (verb).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /wɪŋd/

  • Audio (UK):

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• Rhymes: -ɪŋd

Verb

winged

1. simple past and past participle of wing

Etymology 3

See winge (verb).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /wɪndʒd/

  • Audio (UK):

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• Rhymes: -ɪndʒd
• Homophone: whinged

Verb

winged

1. simple past and past participle of winge

Anagrams

• Dewing, Gwendi, dewing