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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Before 1300 as onix, in about 1250 as oneche, from Old French oniche or onix, from Latin onyx, from Ancient Greek ὄνυξ (onyx).[1]
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
onyx (countable and uncountable, plural onyxes)
- (mineralogy) A banded variety of chalcedony, a cryptocrystalline form of quartz.
- A jet-black color, named after the gemstone.
- onyx colour:
Translations[edit]
a banded variety of chalcedony
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Adjective[edit]
onyx (not comparable)
- jet-black
- 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), imprinted at London: By Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981:, Genesis, 2:12
- And the gold of that land is good: there is bdellium and the onyx stone.
- 1922, Michael Arlen, “3/7/2”, in “Piracy”: A Romantic Chronicle of These Days[1]:
- 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[edit]
References[edit]
- ^ Chambers Dictionary of Etymology, Robert K. Barnhart (ed.), Chambers, 1988
Latin[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Ancient Greek ὄνυξ (ónux, “nail”).
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
onyx m (genitive onychis); third declension
Inflection[edit]
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | onyx | onychēs |
Genitive | onychis | onychum |
Dative | onychī | onychibus |
Accusative | onychem | onychēs |
Ablative | onyche | onychibus |
Vocative | onyx | onychēs |
References[edit]
- 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
Portuguese[edit]
Noun[edit]
onyx m (plural onyx)
- Obsolete spelling of ónix (used in Portugal until September 1911 and died out in Brazil during the 1920s).
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