onycha

== English == === Etymology === Borrowed from Latin onycha. === Noun === onycha (uncountable) (obsolete) the operculum of kinds of strombus or muricid, smoked as an ingredient in the Mosaic incense and pre-modern medicine (obsolete) The precious stone onyx. ==== Translations ==== == Latin == === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈɔ.ny.kʰa] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈɔː.ni.ka] === Etymology 1 === ==== Noun ==== onycha accusative singular of onyx === Etymology 2 === From Ancient Greek ὄνῠξ (ónŭx) standing in the Book of Exodus 30, 34, in the accusative, translating in the Septuaginta Biblical Hebrew שְׁחֵלֶת (šəḥēleṯ). ==== Noun ==== onycha f (genitive onychae); first declension (Medieval Latin) onycha, the operculum of kinds of strombus or muricid, smoked ritually and medicinally Synonyms: unguis odōrātus, blatta byzantīna, blatta byzantia, opercula cochleārum ===== Declension ===== First-declension noun. === References === "onycha", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)