στρίξ
Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
- στλίξ (stlíx)
- στρίγξ (strínx)
Etymology
The formation is similar to γλαῦξ (glaûx) and λύγξ (lúnx). The Greek word is often assumed to be influenced by or derived from τρίζω (trízō, “to squeak”), but its facultative nasal may point to a Pre-Greek origin.
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /stríks/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /striks/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /striks/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /striks/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /striks/
Noun
στρίξ • (stríx) f (genitive στριγός); third declension
- owl
Inflection
Third declension of ἡ στρίξ; τῆς στριγός (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ἡ στρίξ hē stríx | τὼ στρίγε tṑ stríge | αἱ στρίγες hai stríges | ||||||||||
Genitive | τῆς στριγός tês strigós | τοῖν στριγοῖν toîn strigoîn | τῶν στριγῶν tôn strigôn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῇ στριγῐ́ têi strigí | τοῖν στριγοῖν toîn strigoîn | ταῖς στριξῐ́ / στριξῐ́ν taîs strixí(n) | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὴν στρῖγᾰ tḕn strîga | τὼ στρίγε tṑ stríge | τᾱ̀ς στρίγᾰς tā̀s strígas | ||||||||||
Vocative | στρίξ stríx | στρίγε stríge | στρίγες stríges | ||||||||||
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Descendants
- Latin: strix
- Translingual: Strix
Further reading
- στρίξ in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- στρίξ in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill