μάστιξ
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From Pre-Greek.[1]
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /más.tiːks/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈmas.tiks/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈmas.tiks/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈmas.tiks/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈmas.tiks/
Noun
μάστῑξ • (mástīx) f (genitive μάστῑγος); third declension
- (mostly for driving horses) whip, scourge
- Synonym: μάραγνα (máragna)
- 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 5.748
- 11.532
- 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 4.3
- 7.56
- 497 BCE – 405 BCE, Sophocles, Ajax 242
- 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Anabasis 3.4..25
- 519 BCE – 422 BCE, Cratinus, Collected Works 275
- 411 BCE, Aristophanes, Thesmophoriazusae 933
- Phryn., Com. 36
- (figuratively) lash of eloquence
- 522 BCE – 443 BCE, Pindar, Pythian Ode 4.219
- (figuratively) scourge, plague
- 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 12.37
- 13.812
- 525 BCE – 455 BCE, Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound 682
- 467 BCE, Aeschylus, Seven Against Thebes 608
- 458 BCE, Aeschylus, Agamemnon 642
- New Testament, The Gospel of Mark 5:34
Declension
Third declension of ἡ μάστῑξ; τῆς μάστῑγος (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ἡ μάστῑξ hē mástīx | τὼ μάστῑγε tṑ mástīge | αἱ μάστῑγες hai mástīges | ||||||||||
Genitive | τῆς μάστῑγος tês mástīgos | τοῖν μαστῑ́γοιν toîn mastī́goin | τῶν μαστῑ́γων tôn mastī́gōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῇ μάστῑγῐ têi mástīgi | τοῖν μαστῑ́γοιν toîn mastī́goin | ταῖς μάστῑξῐ / μάστῑξῐν taîs mástīxi(n) | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὴν μάστῑγᾰ tḕn mástīga | τὼ μάστῑγε tṑ mástīge | τᾱ̀ς μάστῑγᾰς tā̀s mástīgas | ||||||||||
Vocative | μάστῑξ mástīx | μάστῑγε mástīge | μάστῑγες mástīges | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
- ἀμαστῑ́γωτος (amastī́gōtos)
- ἀπομαστῑγόω (apomastīgóō)
- γραμματικομάστῑξ (grammatikomástīx)
- δῐᾰμαστιγόω (diamastigóō)
- κᾰτᾰμαστίζω (katamastízō)
- μάστειρᾰ (másteira)
- μαστιάω (mastiáō)
- μαστῑγέω (mastīgéō)
- μαστῑγῐ́ᾱ (mastīgíā)
- μαστῑγῐ́ᾱς (mastīgíās)
- μαστῑγιάω (mastīgiáō)
- μαστῑ́γῐον (mastī́gion)
- μαστῑγονομέομαι (mastīgonoméomai)
- μαστῑγονόμος (mastīgonómos)
- μαστῑγοφορέω (mastīgophoréō)
- μαστῑγοφόρος (mastīgophóros)
- μαστῑγόω (mastīgóō)
- μαστῑγώσῐμος (mastīgṓsimos)
- μαστῑ́γωσῐς (mastī́gōsis)
- μαστῑγωτέος (mastīgōtéos)
- μαστῑγωτῐκός (mastīgōtikós)
- μαστίζω (mastízō)
- μαστῑ́κτειρᾰ (mastī́kteira)
- μαστῑ́κτωρ (mastī́ktōr)
- μαστιστής (mastistḗs)
- μαστίω (mastíō)
- Ὁμηρομάστῑξ (Homēromástīx)
- ὁμομαστῑγίας (homomastīgías)
- προσμαστῑγόω (prosmastīgóō)
- ῥητορομάστῑξ (rhētoromástīx)
- σειρομάστῑξ (seiromástīx)
- συμμαστῑγόω (summastīgóō)
- τριμαστῑγίας (trimastīgías)
References
- Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010), “μάστιξ”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 911–912
Further reading
- “μάστιξ”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “μάστιξ”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “μάστιξ”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- μάστιξ in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- μάστιξ in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- “μάστιξ”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
- G3148 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
- μάστιξ in Trapp, Erich, et al. (1994–2007) Lexikon zur byzantinischen Gräzität besonders des 9.-12. Jahrhunderts [the Lexicon of Byzantine Hellenism, Particularly the 9th–12th Centuries], Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- lash idem, page 477.
- scourge idem, page 741.
- whip idem, page 976.