onycha

English

Etymology

Noun

onycha (uncountable)

(obsolete) An ingredient of the Mosaic incense, probably the operculum of some kind of strombus.
And the Lord said to Moses: Take unto thee spices, stacte, and onycha, galbanum of sweet savour, and the clearest frankincense, all shall be of equal weight. Exodus 30:34, Douay-Rheims-Challoner translation
(obsolete) The precious stone onyx.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for onycha in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

Latin

Noun

onycha f (genitive onychae); first declension

an unknown type of mollusc

Inflection

First declension.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	onycha	onychae
Genitive	onychae	onychārum
Dative	onychae	onychīs
Accusative	onycham	onychās
Ablative	onychā	onychīs
Vocative	onycha	onychae

References

onycha in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)

This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.