Ancient Greek

Noun

ὄρυξ • ‎(órux) m ‎(genitive ὄρυγος); third declension

1. A pickaxe or other sharp iron digging tool
2. An oryx
3. A kind of whale, perhaps a narwhale.

References

• ὄρυξ in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ὄρυξ in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• «ὄρυξ» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette