See Lynx in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
Download JSON data for Lynx meaning in English (4.4kB)
{
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "la",
"3": "lynx",
"4": "",
"5": "lynx"
},
"expansion": "Latin lynx (“lynx”)",
"name": "der"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From Latin lynx (“lynx”). Named by the astronomer Johannes Hevelius in 1687. The constellation is said to be so faint that one needs the eyes of a lynx to see it.",
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "Lynx",
"name": "en-proper noun"
}
],
"hyphenation": [
"Lynx"
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "name",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [
"Entries with incorrect language header",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Mandarin terms with redundant transliterations",
"parents": [
"Terms with redundant transliterations",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Arabic translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Finnish translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with French translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Galician translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with German Low German translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with German translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Icelandic translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Irish translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Kazakh translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Malay translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Mandarin translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Polish translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Russian translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Spanish translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "topical",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "Constellations",
"orig": "en:Constellations",
"parents": [
"Astronomy",
"Sciences",
"Space",
"All topics",
"Nature",
"Fundamental"
],
"source": "w"
}
],
"derived": [
{
"word": "Lyncis"
}
],
"glosses": [
"A faint spring constellation of the northern sky. It lies north of the constellation Cancer."
],
"id": "en-Lynx-en-name-7UyTqGo-",
"links": [
[
"astronomy",
"astronomy"
],
[
"spring",
"spring"
],
[
"constellation",
"constellation"
],
[
"northern",
"northern"
],
[
"Cancer",
"Cancer"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(astronomy) A faint spring constellation of the northern sky. It lies north of the constellation Cancer."
],
"topics": [
"astronomy",
"natural-sciences"
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "ar",
"lang": "Arabic",
"roman": "al-wašaq",
"sense": "constellation",
"word": "الْوَشَق"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "constellation",
"word": "天貓座"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "Tiānmāozuò",
"sense": "constellation",
"word": "天猫座"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "constellation",
"word": "Ilves"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "constellation",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Lynx"
},
{
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "constellation",
"word": "Lince"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "constellation",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Luchs"
},
{
"code": "is",
"lang": "Icelandic",
"sense": "constellation",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Gaupan"
},
{
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "constellation",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "an Lincse"
},
{
"code": "kk",
"lang": "Kazakh",
"roman": "Sıleusın",
"sense": "constellation",
"word": "Сілеусін"
},
{
"code": "nds-de",
"lang": "Low German",
"sense": "constellation",
"tags": [
"German-Low-German",
"masculine"
],
"word": "Loss"
},
{
"code": "ms",
"lang": "Malay",
"sense": "constellation",
"word": "Links"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "constellation",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Ryś"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "Rysʹ",
"sense": "constellation",
"word": "Рысь"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "constellation",
"word": "Lynx"
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"Johannes Hevelius",
"Lynx (constellation)"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/lɪŋks/"
},
{
"rhymes": "-ɪŋks"
},
{
"homophone": "links"
}
],
"word": "Lynx"
}
{
"derived": [
{
"word": "Lyncis"
}
],
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "la",
"3": "lynx",
"4": "",
"5": "lynx"
},
"expansion": "Latin lynx (“lynx”)",
"name": "der"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From Latin lynx (“lynx”). Named by the astronomer Johannes Hevelius in 1687. The constellation is said to be so faint that one needs the eyes of a lynx to see it.",
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "Lynx",
"name": "en-proper noun"
}
],
"hyphenation": [
"Lynx"
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "name",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English 1-syllable words",
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English lemmas",
"English proper nouns",
"English terms derived from Latin",
"English terms with IPA pronunciation",
"English terms with homophones",
"English uncountable nouns",
"Mandarin terms with redundant transliterations",
"Rhymes:English/ɪŋks",
"Rhymes:English/ɪŋks/1 syllable",
"Terms with Arabic translations",
"Terms with Finnish translations",
"Terms with French translations",
"Terms with Galician translations",
"Terms with German Low German translations",
"Terms with German translations",
"Terms with Icelandic translations",
"Terms with Irish translations",
"Terms with Kazakh translations",
"Terms with Malay translations",
"Terms with Mandarin translations",
"Terms with Polish translations",
"Terms with Russian translations",
"Terms with Spanish translations",
"en:Constellations"
],
"glosses": [
"A faint spring constellation of the northern sky. It lies north of the constellation Cancer."
],
"links": [
[
"astronomy",
"astronomy"
],
[
"spring",
"spring"
],
[
"constellation",
"constellation"
],
[
"northern",
"northern"
],
[
"Cancer",
"Cancer"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(astronomy) A faint spring constellation of the northern sky. It lies north of the constellation Cancer."
],
"topics": [
"astronomy",
"natural-sciences"
],
"wikipedia": [
"Johannes Hevelius",
"Lynx (constellation)"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/lɪŋks/"
},
{
"rhymes": "-ɪŋks"
},
{
"homophone": "links"
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "ar",
"lang": "Arabic",
"roman": "al-wašaq",
"sense": "constellation",
"word": "الْوَشَق"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "constellation",
"word": "天貓座"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "Tiānmāozuò",
"sense": "constellation",
"word": "天猫座"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "constellation",
"word": "Ilves"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "constellation",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Lynx"
},
{
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "constellation",
"word": "Lince"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "constellation",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Luchs"
},
{
"code": "is",
"lang": "Icelandic",
"sense": "constellation",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Gaupan"
},
{
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "constellation",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "an Lincse"
},
{
"code": "kk",
"lang": "Kazakh",
"roman": "Sıleusın",
"sense": "constellation",
"word": "Сілеусін"
},
{
"code": "nds-de",
"lang": "Low German",
"sense": "constellation",
"tags": [
"German-Low-German",
"masculine"
],
"word": "Loss"
},
{
"code": "ms",
"lang": "Malay",
"sense": "constellation",
"word": "Links"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "constellation",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Ryś"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "Rysʹ",
"sense": "constellation",
"word": "Рысь"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "constellation",
"word": "Lynx"
}
],
"word": "Lynx"
}
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-06-23 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-06-20 using wiktextract (1b9bfc5 and 0136956). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.
If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.