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Latin
Etymology
From Ancient Greek λυγκούριον (lunkoúrion). Ancient writers give a derivation from λύγξ (lúnx, “lynx”) + οὖρον (oûron, “urine”), as the stone was said to be the crystallized urine of the lynx, but this is apparently a folk etymology. Judging by its wide variety of forms in Ancient Greek, the word is probably of Pre-Greek origin.
Pronunciation
Noun
lyncūrium n (genitive lyncūriī or lyncūrī); second declension
- lynxstone, a hard, transparent gemstone (perhaps jacinth or tourmaline)
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter).
1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).
References
- “lyncurium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “lyncurium”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers