onychinus
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]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
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Ancient Greek ὀνῠ́χῐνος (onŭ́khĭnos).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /oˈny.kʰi.nus/, [ɔˈnʏkʰɪnʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /oˈni.ki.nus/, [oˈniːkinus]
Adjective
[edit]onychinus (feminine onychina, neuter onychinum); first/second-declension adjective
Declension
[edit]First/second-declension adjective.
| singular | plural | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| masculine | feminine | neuter | masculine | feminine | neuter | ||
| nominative | onychinus | onychina | onychinum | onychinī | onychinae | onychina | |
| genitive | onychinī | onychinae | onychinī | onychinōrum | onychinārum | onychinōrum | |
| dative | onychinō | onychinae | onychinō | onychinīs | |||
| accusative | onychinum | onychinam | onychinum | onychinōs | onychinās | onychina | |
| ablative | onychinō | onychinā | onychinō | onychinīs | |||
| vocative | onychine | onychina | onychinum | onychinī | onychinae | onychina | |
Descendants
[edit]- Italian: niccolo
Further reading
[edit]- “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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