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ŏnўchĭnus

ŏnўchĭnus · adj

Of the color of the finger-nail

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What it meant

ŏnўchĭnus — Lewis & Short

ŏnўchĭnus, a, um, adj., = o)nu/xinos.

I Of the color of the finger-nail, nail-colored: pira, Plin. 15, 15, 16, § 55: pruna, Col. 12, 10.—

II Of the marble called onyx: lapis, Vulg. Gen. 2, 12.—As subst.: onychinus, the onyx, Vulg. Exod. 39, 13.—Transf., resembling the onyx (poet.) of the coating of ice on rivers: tegimen onychinum, Laev ap. Gell. 19, 7 fin.—Subst.: ŏnўchĭna (sc. vasa), n. plur., vessels of onyx, Lampr. Heliog. 32.

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