onychinus
English
Etymology
Noun
onychinus (uncountable)
- (obsolete) onyx
- 1563 March 30 (Gregorian calendar), John Foxe, Actes and Monuments of These Latter and Perillous Dayes, […], London: […] Iohn Day, […], →OCLC:
- […] a certain vessel finely and subtilly made of the precious stone onychinus […]
Latin
Etymology
Borrowed from Ancient Greek ὀνῠ́χῐνος (onúkhinos).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /oˈny.kʰi.nus/, [ɔˈnʏkʰɪnʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /oˈni.ki.nus/, [oˈniːkinus]
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
| Nominative | onychinus | onychina | onychinum | onychinī | onychinae | onychina | |
| Genitive | onychinī | onychinae | onychinī | onychinōrum | onychinārum | onychinōrum | |
| Dative | onychinō | onychinō | onychinīs | ||||
| Accusative | onychinum | onychinam | onychinum | onychinōs | onychinās | onychina | |
| Ablative | onychinō | onychinā | onychinō | onychinīs | |||
| Vocative | onychine | onychina | onychinum | onychinī | onychinae | onychina | |
Descendants
- Italian: niccolo
Further reading
- “onychinus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- onychinus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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