onychinus

English

Etymology

Latin

Noun

onychinus (uncountable)

1. (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]

Adjective

onychinus (feminine onychina, neuter onychinum); first/second-declension adjective

1. (relational) onyx marble
2. onyx-marble-colored

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.