lynx

From Middle English lynx, from Latin lynx, from Ancient Greek λύγξ (lúnx), from Proto-Indo-European *lewk- (“white; light; bright”), because of the cat's glowing eyes and ability to see in the dark. Replaced Old English lox.

• enPR: lĭngks, IPA^(key): /lɪŋks/

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• Homophone: links
• Rhymes: -ɪŋks

lynx (plural lynxes or lynx)

1. Any of several medium-sized wild cats, mostly of the genus Lynx.

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• Lynx on Wikispecies.Wikispecies

From Middle Dutch linx, from Latin lynx, from Ancient Greek λύγξ (lúnx).

• IPA^(key): /lɪŋks/

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• Hyphenation: lynx
• Rhymes: -ɪŋks
• Homophone: links

lynx m (plural lynxen, diminutive lynxje n)

1. lynx, felid of the genus Lynx, in particular the Eurasian lynx (Lynx lynx); sometimes used of other medium-sized felids with large, plumed ears.

• los (dated)

• Canadese lynx
• Europese lynx
• Iberische lynx
• pardellynx
• rode lynx
• Spaanse lynx
• woestijnlynx

Borrowed from Latin, from Ancient Greek λύγξ (lúnx)

• IPA^(key): /lɛ̃ks/

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lynx m (plural lynx)

1. a lynx

• “lynx” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

From Ancient Greek λύγξ (lúnx).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /lynks/, [lʏŋks]

lynx c (genitive lyncis); third declension

1. A lynx

   Colla lyncum.

   The necks of the lynxes.

   • Carmina (also Odes) by Horace (Latin text with English translations)

     Quin et Prometheus et Pelopis parens

     dulci laborem decipitur sono

     nec curat Orion leones

     aut timidos agitare lyncas

     Prometheus too and Pelops' sire

     In listening lose the sense of woe;

     Orion hearkens to the lyre,

     And lets the lynx and lion go.

Third declension.

• lynx in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• lynx in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• lynx in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

• linx, lenx

Borrowed from Latin lynx, from Ancient Greek λύγξ (lúnx).

• IPA^(key): /links/, [liŋks]

lynx (plural lenxis or lynces)

1. lynx

• English: lynx
• Scots: lynx (obsolete)

• “linx (n.)” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-08-24.