lynx

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

Eclipsed English los; Middle English lusk (“lynx”), from Old English lox (“lynx”) as the animal died out in Britain during the Middle Ages.

• enPR: lĭngks, IPA^(key): /lɪŋks/

• Audio (US):

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• Homophone: links
• Rhymes: -ɪŋks

lynx (plural lynx or lynxes)

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

• bobcat
• Canada lynx
• Eurasian lynx
• Iberian lynx

• lynx on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Lynx on Wikispecies.Wikispecies

From Middle Dutch linx, from Latin lynx, from Ancient Greek λύγξ (lúnx). Doublet of los (“lynx”).

• 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

   Synonym: (dated) los

• van der Sijs, Nicoline, editor (2010), “lynx”, in Etymologiebank, Meertens Institute

• lynx on the Dutch Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^nl

Borrowed from Latin, from Ancient Greek λύγξ (lúnx). Doublet of once.

• IPA^(key): /lɛ̃ks/

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lynx m (plural lynx)

1. a lynx

   Synonym: loup-cervier

• “lynx”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

From Ancient Greek λύγξ (lúnx).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈlyŋks]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈliŋks]

lynx m or f (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 noun.

Through Vulgar Latin *luncea:

Borrowings:

• “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 24 August 2018.