jynx
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[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]- (adaptations of the Latin nominative singular, iynx) iynx [in the 19th century], jynx [from the 17th century onwards]
- (adaptations of the Latin stem, iyng-) iyng, jyng [both disused after the 17th century]
Etymology
[edit]An adaptation of the Latin iynx (“wryneck”), itself an adaptation of the Ancient Greek ἴῠγξ (íunx, “Eurasian wryneck”, “Jynx torquilla”; figuratively “a spell or charm”, “passionate yearning”), which see for an explanation of the development of its senses.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]jynx (plural jynges)
- A bird, the wryneck, once thought a bird of ill omen (Jynx torquilla).
- 1649, George Daniel, Trinarchodia: Henry V, line ccxcv:
- Where not a Silver Iyng, or Pigeon, fell To Pay the Markman.
- 1706, “Jynx”, in John Kersey, editor, Phillips’s New World of Words:
- Jynx, the Wry-neck, or Emmet-hunter, or as some say, the Wag-tail.
- 1708, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, XXVI, page 123:
- The Jynx or Wryneck…I first heard this year on March 29.
- 1845, The Zoologist: A Miscellany of Natural History III, page 1,107:
- 1857, Samuel Birch, History of Ancient Pottery, volume I, published 1858, page 297:
- A youth or females hold a bird, supposed to be the iynx, in their hands.
- (transferred sense) A charm or spell.
- Synonym: jinx
- ante 1693, Sir Thomas Urquhart (translator), François Rabelais (author), The Third Book of the Works of Mr. Francis Rabelais, chapter i, page 23:
- These are the Philtres, Allurements, Jynges, Inveiglements [les philtres, iynges, et attraictz], Baits, and Enticements of Love.
- The name of an order of spiritual intelligences in ancient “Chaldaic” philosophy.
- 1655, Thomas Stanley, The History of the Chaldaick Philosophy, published 1701, page 17/2:
- Then is the Intelligible Jynx; next which are the Synoches, the Empyreal, the Ætherial and the Material; after the Synoches are the Teletarchs…Intelligent Jynges do themselves also understand from the Father By unspeakable Counsels being moved so as to understand.
Derived terms
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[edit]Translations
[edit]Jynx torquilla — see wryneck
a charm or spell — see spell
name of an order of spiritual intelligences in Chaldaic philosophy
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