onyx
English
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Etymology
[edit]From Middle English onix (c. 1300), earlier oniche (c. 1250), from Old French oniche or onix, from Latin onyx, from Ancient Greek ὄνυξ (ónux, “onyx”).[1] Doublet of unguis.
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /ˈɒnɪks/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - Rhymes: -ɒnɪks
Noun
[edit]onyx (countable and uncountable, plural onyxes)
- (mineralogy) A banded variety of chalcedony, a cryptocrystalline form of quartz.
- 2023 September 23, Tom Robbins, “Suite dreams”, in FT Weekend, Life & Arts, page 1:
- People talk about using marble in the bathrooms. Marble wasn't good enough for use—we have onyx!
- A jet-black color, named after the gemstone.
- Any of various lycaenid butterflies of the genus Horaga.
Derived terms
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Translations
[edit]a banded variety of chalcedony
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Adjective
[edit]onyx (not comparable)
- Jet-black; often, glossily so.
- 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC:, 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 ὄνῠξ (ónŭx, “nail”).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈɔ.nyks]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈɔː.niks]
Noun
[edit]onyx m (genitive onychis or onychos); third declension
Declension
[edit]Third-declension noun (non-Greek-type or Greek-type, normal variant).
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | onyx | onychē̆s |
| genitive | onychis onychos |
onychum |
| dative | onychī | onychibus |
| accusative | onychem onycha |
onychēs onychas |
| ablative | onyche | onychibus |
| vocative | onyx | onychē̆s |
Related terms
[edit]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
Middle English
[edit]Noun
[edit]onyx
- alternative form of oniche
Portuguese
[edit]Noun
[edit]onyx m (invariable)
- pre-reform spelling (used until 1943 in Brazil and 1911 in Portugal) of ónix
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