onyx的词源

英文词源

onyx

onyx: [13] Greek ónux meant ‘claw, fingernail’ (it is distantly related to English nail). Certain sorts of onyx are pink with white streaks, and a resemblance to pink fingernails with their paler crescent-shaped mark at the base led the Greeks to name the stone ónux. The word travelled to English via Latin onyx and Old French onix.
=> nail

onyx (n.)

mid-13c., from Old French oniche "onyx" (12c.), and directly from Latin onyx (genitive onychis), from Greek onyx "onyx-stone," originally "claw, fingernail" (see nail (n.)). So called because the mineral's color sometimes resembles that of a fingernail, pink with white streaks.

中文词源

onyx：玛瑙石

来自希腊语onyx,玛瑙石，来自PIE*onogh,爪子，指甲，词源同nail,ungulate. 因这种石头的颜色形如指甲而得名。

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