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lynx
Greek · ancient
"the wildcat with gleaming eyes"
possibly related to leukos (bright), describing the animal's gleaming eyes
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lynx
Latin · ancient
"wildcat"
carried into Latin for the same wildcat
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lynx
English · 1400s
"a tufted-ear wildcat"
settled as the English word for the tufted-ear wildcat
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