onyx

== English == === Etymology === 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”). Doublet of unguis. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈɒnɪks/ Rhymes: -ɒnɪks === Noun === 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. Near-synonyms: ebony, raven Any of various lycaenid butterflies of the genus Horaga. ==== Derived terms ==== onyx marble ==== Translations ==== === Adjective === onyx (not comparable) Jet-black; often, glossily so. Near-synonyms: ebony, raven , Genesis, 2:12 And the gold of that land is good: there is bdellium and the onyx stone. === See also === sardonyx === References === == Latin == === Etymology === From Ancient Greek ὄνῠξ (ónŭx, “nail”). === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈɔ.nyks] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈɔː.niks] === Noun === onyx m (genitive onychis or onychos); third declension onyx (yellow marble) a yellowish precious stone the female of a mussel of the scallop species ==== Declension ==== Third-declension noun (non-Greek-type or Greek-type, normal variant). ==== Related terms ==== === References === “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 == === Noun === onyx alternative form of oniche == Portuguese == === Noun === onyx m (invariable) pre-reform spelling (used until 1943 in Brazil and 1911 in Portugal) of ónix