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ὄνυξ

Third declension Noun; Masculine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ὄνυξ ὄνυχος

Structure: ὀνυχ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Sense

  1. claw, nail, hoof
  2. Anything which resembles a claw or nail, scraping tool
  3. onyx (gem)
  4. a kind of aromatic substance

Declension

Third declension

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • αὐτῇ τῇ ὥρᾳ ὁ λόγοσ συνετελέσθη ἐπὶ Ναβουχοδονόσορ, καὶ ἀπὸ τῶν ἀνθρώπων ἐξεδιώχθη καὶ χόρτον ὡσ βοῦσ ἤσθιε, καὶ ἀπὸ τῆσ δρόσου τοῦ οὐρανοῦ τὸ σῶμα αὐτοῦ ἐβάφη, ἕωσ οὗ αἱ τρίχεσ αὐτοῦ ὡσ λεόντων ἐμεγαλύνθησαν καὶ οἱ ὄνυχεσ αὐτοῦ ὡσ ὀρνέων. ‐ (Septuagint, Prophetia Danielis 4:30)
  • καὶ ἐζήτουν ἀκριβῶσ περὶ τοῦ θηρίου τοῦ τετάρτου, ὅτι ἦν διαφέρον παρὰ πᾶν θηρίον, φοβερὸν περισσῶσ, οἱ ὀδόντεσ αὐτοῦ σιδηροῖ καὶ ὄνυχεσ αὐτοῦ χαλκοῖ. ἐσθίον καὶ λεπτῦνον καὶ τὰ ἐπίλοιπα τοῖσ ποσὶν αὐτοῦ συνεπάτει. (Septuagint, Prophetia Danielis 7:19)
  • πὰρ δ’ Ἀχλὺσ εἱστήκει ἐπισμυγερή τε καὶ αἰνή, χλωρὴ ἀυσταλέη λιμῷ καταπεπτηυῖα, γουνοπαχήσ, μακροὶ δ’ ὄνυχεσ χείρεσσιν ὑπῆσαν. (Hesiod, Shield of Heracles, Book Sh. 25:11)
  • ἔκτοσθεν δέ οἱ χρυσόσ τε ἄλλοσ περικέαται καὶ λίθοι κάρτα πολυτελέεσ, τῶν οἱ μὲν λευκοί, οἱ δὲ ὑδατώδεεσ, πολλοὶ δὲ οἰνώδεεσ, πολλοὶ δὲ πυρώδεεσ, ἔτι δὲ ὄνυχεσ οἱ Σαρδῷοι πολλοὶ καὶ ὑάκινθοι καὶ σμάραγδοι, τὰ φέρουσιν Αἰγύπτιοι καὶ Ἰνδοὶ καὶ Αἰθίοπεσ καὶ Μῆδοι καὶ Ἀρμένιοι καὶ Βαβυλώνιοι. (Lucian, De Syria dea, (no name) 32:4)
  • "τούτοισ τοῖσ διαλογισμοῖσ καὶ φιλοσοφήμασιν ἀρθέντων τῶν νόμων, ὄνυχεσ λύκων ἐνδέουσι καὶ δόγματα; (Plutarch, Adversus Colotem, section 30 1:10)

Synonyms

  1. claw

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