Hoya

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Translingual

Hoya carnosa

Etymology

New Latin, after Thomas Hoy + -a

Proper noun

Hoya f

  1. A taxonomic genus within the family Apocynaceae – hoyas or waxflowers, found in southern Asia, Japan, and Australasia.

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Etymology

Derived from the mixed Greek and Latin chant "Hoya Saxa" (meaning "What Rocks"), which gained popularity at the school in the late nineteenth century. The name Hoyas came into use in the 1920s.

Noun

Hoya (plural Hoyas)

  1. A member of the Georgetown Hoyas, the official athletics teams of Georgetown University in the United States.
    • 2013 December 20, Liz Clarke, “Georgetown point guard Markel Starks sticks to his plans as Hoyas take on No. 18 Kansas”, in The Washington Post‎:
      Today, the Hoyas’ senior point guard and former first-team All-Met is pursuing a more audacious goal: to take Georgetown deep in the NCAA tournament and add to the Final Four banners on display in McDonough Arena.
  2. A current or former student of Georgetown University.
    • 2020 September 10, Michelle Brown, “Traveling Stuffed Panda ‘Chunky’ Visits Hoyas at Their Homes”, in The Hoya‎:
      This traveling bear doesn’t belong to a circus — Chunky the Georgetown Panda is a stuffed panda that has been shipped across the country to Hoyas old and new.

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