Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗noun
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryA bird, the wryneck, once thought a bird of ill omen (Jynx torquilla). · A charm or spell. · One of an order of spiritual intelligences in ancient “Chaldaic” philosophy.
An adaptation of the Latin iynx (“wryneck”), itself an adaptation of the Ancient Greek ἴϋγξ (íünx, “Eurasian wryneck, Jynx torquilla; spell or charm; passionate yearning”).
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