onycha

Borrowed from Latin onycha.

onycha (uncountable)

1. (obsolete) the operculum of kinds of strombus or muricid, smoked as an ingredient in the Mosaic incense and pre-modern medicine
   • 1609, The Holie Bible, […] (Douay–Rheims Bible), Doway: Laurence Kellam, […], →OCLC, Exodus 30:34, page 241:

     And our Lord ſaid to Moyſes: Take vnto thee ſpices, ſtactee, and onycha, galbanum of ſwete ſauour, and the cleareſt frankincenſe, al shal be of equal weight:

2. (obsolete) The precious stone onyx.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈɔ.ny.kʰa]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈɔː.ni.ka]

onycha

1. accusative singular of onyx

From Ancient Greek ὄνῠξ (ónŭx) standing in the Book of Exodus 30, 34, in the accusative, translating in the Septuaginta Biblical Hebrew שְׁחֵלֶת (šəḥēleṯ).

onycha f (genitive onychae); first declension (Medieval Latin)

1. onycha, the operculum of kinds of strombus or muricid, smoked ritually and medicinally

   Synonyms: unguis odōrātus, blatta byzantīna, blatta byzantia, opercula cochleārum

First-declension noun.

• "onycha", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)