# winged
## English
### Etymology 1

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

#### Alternative forms

* wingèd (chiefly poetry)

#### Pronunciation

* enPR: wĭng(ĭ)d
* IPA: /wɪŋ(ɪ)d/
** Audio (Southern England):(file)
** Audio (Southern England):(file)
* Rhymes: -ɪŋd, -ɪŋɪd

#### Adjective

winged (not comparable)
* Having wings.
    Antonyms: apterous, unwinged, wingless
** 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.
** (in combination) Having wings of a specified kind.
    Hyponyms: brachypterous, subapterous
    weak-winged
** (in combination) Having the specified number of wings.
    Hyponyms: dipterous, tripterous
    The six-winged Seraphim are the angels closest to God.
* Flying or soaring as if on wings.
* Swift.
** c. 1587–1588, [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; 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.

##### Derived terms

* angular-winged katydid
* bar-winged rail
* bay-winged hawk
* black-winged kite
* black-winged pratincole
* black-winged stilt
* blue-winged grasshopper
* blue-winged kookaburra
* blue-winged laughingthrush
* blue-winged macaw
* broad-winged hawk
* bronze-winged jacana
* crimson-winged woodpecker
* gossamer-winged butterfly
* green-winged
* grey-winged trumpeter
* hand-winged
* light-winged (adjective)
* narrow-winged tree cricket
* net-winged beetle
* orange-winged amazon
* orange-winged parrot
* picture-winged fly
* plain-winged antshrike
* red-winged blackbird
* red-winged fairywren
* red-winged tinamou
* rufous-winged antshrike
* scimitar-winged piha
* spoon-winged lacewing
* spot-winged antshrike
* spur-winged
* spur-winged goose
* spur-winged lapwing
* spur-winged plover
* unwinged
* white-winged black tit
* white-winged crossbill
* white-winged dove
* white-winged fairywren
* white-winged parakeet
* white-winged scoter
* white-winged tern
* winged bean
* winged monkeys
* winged rat
* winged T
* winged word
* wrist-winged glider

##### Translations
### Etymology 2

See wing (verb).

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /wɪŋd/
** Audio (Southern England):(file)
* Rhymes: -ɪŋd

#### Verb

winged
* simple past and past participle of wing

### Etymology 3

See winge (verb).

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /wɪnd͡ʒd/
** Audio (Southern England):(file)
* Rhymes: -ɪndʒd
* Homophone: whinged

#### Verb

winged
* simple past and past participle of winge

### References

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

### Anagrams

* Gwendi, Dewing, dewing, Wendig