winged

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See also: wingèd

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English winged, wenged (“having wings”), past participle of wingen, from the noun winge, wenge.[1]

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winged (not comparable)

  1. Having wings.
    Antonyms: apterous, unwinged, wingless
    • 2013 July 26, Nick Miroff, “Mexico gets a taste for eating insects …”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 7, page 32:
      The San Juan market is Mexico City's most famous deli of exotic meats, where an adventurous shopper can hunt down hard-to-find critters … But the priciest items in the market aren't the armadillo steaks or even the bluefin tuna. That would be the frozen chicatanas – giant winged ants – at around $500 a kilo.
    1. (in combination) Having wings of a specified kind.
      Hyponyms: brachypterous, subapterous
      weak-winged
    2. (in combination) Having the specified number of wings.
      Hyponyms: dipterous, tripterous
      The six-winged Seraphim are the angels closest to God.
  2. Flying or soaring as if on wings.
  3. Swift.
    • c. 1587–1588, [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. The First Part , 2nd edition, part 1, London: Richard Iones, , published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire, London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act II, scene iii:
      Come Tamburlain, now whet thy winged ſword
      And lift thy loftie arme into the cloudes,
      That it may reach the King of Perſeas crowne,
      And ſet it ſafe on my victorious head.
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Etymology 2

See wing (verb).

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winged

  1. simple past and past participle of wing

Etymology 3

See winge (verb).

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Verb

winged

  1. simple past and past participle of winge

References

  1. ^ “wingen, v.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2018, retrieved 5 November 2019.

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