winged

winged

See also: wingèd

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English winged, wenged (“having wings”), past participle of wingen, from the noun winge, wenge.[1]

Alternative forms

• wingèd (chiefly poetry)

Pronunciation

• enPR: wĭng(ĭ)d
• IPA^(key): /wɪŋ(ɪ)d/

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• Rhymes: -ɪŋd, -ɪŋɪd

Adjective

winged (not comparable)

1. Having wings.
   • 2013 July 26, Nick Miroff, “Mexico gets a taste for eating insects …”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 7, page 32:

     The San Juan market is Mexico City's most famous deli of exotic meats, where an adventurous shopper can hunt down hard-to-find critters … But the priciest items in the market aren't the armadillo steaks or even the bluefin tuna. That would be the frozen chicatanas – giant winged ants – at around $500 a kilo.

2. Flying or soaring as if on wings.
3. Swift.
   • c. 1587–1588, [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], part 1, 2nd edition, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, OCLC 932920499; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire; London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act II, scene iii:

     Come Tamburlain, now whet thy winged ſword
     And lift thy loftie arme into the cloudes,
     That it may reach the King of Perſeas crowne,
     And ſet it ſafe on my victorious head.

4. (in combination) having wings of a specified kind

   weak-winged

5. (in combination) having the specified number of wings

   The six-winged Seraphim are the angels closest to God.

Derived terms

• light-winged (adjective)
• winged word

Translations

having wings

Armenian: թեւավոր (hy) (tʿewavor) Belarusian: крыла́сты (krylásty), крыла́ты (kryláty), скрыдла́ты (skrydláty) Bulgarian: крила́т (bg) (krilát) Catalan: alat (ca) Crimean Tatar: qanatlı Czech: křídlatý, okřídlený Dutch: gevleugeld (nl) French: ailé (fr) Galician: alado (gl) German: geflügelt (de) Greek: Ancient: πτερόεις (pteróeis) Hungarian: szárnyas (hu) Irish: sciathánach, eiteach Latin: ālātus, ālifer Latvian: spārnots, spārnains Macedonian: крилест (krilest), крилат (krilat) Manx: skianagh Maori: whaiparirau Polish: uskrzydlony (pl), skrzydlaty (pl) Portuguese: alado (pt) Romanian: înaripat (ro) Russian: крыла́тый (ru) (krylátyj) Slovak: krídlatý, okrídlený (sk) Spanish: alado (es) Swahili: -enye mabawa Swedish: bevingad (sv) Turkish: kanatlı (tr) Ukrainian: крила́тий (krylátyj) Welsh: adeiniog, asgellog

Etymology 2

See wing (verb).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /wɪŋd/

  • Audio (UK)

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• Rhymes: -ɪŋd

Verb

winged

1. simple past tense and past participle of wing

Etymology 3

See winge (verb).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /wɪnd͡ʒd/

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• Rhymes: -ɪndʒd
• Homophone: whinged

Verb

winged

1. simple past tense and past participle of winge

References

1. “wingen, v.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2018, retrieved 5 November 2019.

Anagrams

• Dewing, Gwendi, dewing