oryx

From Latin, from Ancient Greek ὄρυξ (órux, “a pickax; an oryx (the antelope)”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈɔɹ.ɪks/, /ˈoʊɹ.ɪks/

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oryx (plural oryxes or oryx or (rare) oryges)

1. Any of several antelopes, of the genus Oryx, native to Africa, which have long, straight horns

• sabre antelope

• orygine

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• xyro-, Roxy

From Ancient Greek ὄρυξ (órux), the antelope probably being named after the sharp iron digging tools with the same name, because of the shape of its horns.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈo.ryks/, [ˈɔrʏks̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈo.riks/, [ˈɔːriks]

oryx m (genitive orygis); third declension

1. antelope, gazelle
2. wild goat
3. wild bull or ox

Third-declension noun.

• “oryx”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “oryx”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• oryx in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “oryx”, in The Perseus Project (1999) Perseus Encyclopedia‎^[1]
• “oryx”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly