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語源

From 中期英語 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.

発音

• IPA: /ˈɒnɪks/
• 韻: -ɒnɪks

名詞

onyx (countable and uncountable, plural onyxes)

1. (mineralogy) A banded variety of chalcedony, a cryptocrystalline form of quartz.
   • 2023 September 23, Tom Robbins, “Suite dreams”, in FT Weekend (Life & Arts section), London: The Financial Times Ltd., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 1:

     People talk about using marble in the bathrooms. Marble wasn't good enough for use—we have onyx!

2. A jet-black color, named after the gemstone.

   onyx:  

   Near-synonyms: ebony, raven

3. Any of various lycaenid butterflies of the genus Horaga.

派生語

• onyx marble

形容詞

onyx (not comparable)

1. Jet-black; often, glossily so.

   Near-synonyms: ebony, raven

   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC:
     , Genesis, 2:12

     And the gold of that land is good: there is bdellium and the onyx stone.

   • 1922, Michael Arlen, “3/7/2”, in “Piracy”: A Romantic Chronicle of These Days‎:

     There was no moon, only stars set brilliantly in the soft black onyx of the sky : a black night and very silent on Cimiez ; and a black and silent prospect from the verandah […]

参考

• sardonyx

参照

発音

• (Classical Latin) IPA: [ˈɔ.nyks]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: [ˈɔː.niks]

名詞

onyx m (genitive onychis or onychos); third declension

1. onyx (yellow marble)
2. a yellowish precious stone
3. the female of a mussel of the scallop species

語形変化

Third-declension noun (non-Greek-type or Greek-type, normal variant).

関連する語

参照

• “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