στόνυξ
Ancient Greek
Etymology
Assumed to be a cross of ὄνυξ (ónux, “nail”) and στόχος (stókhos, “pillar of brick”), στάχυς (stákhus, “ear of wheat”) or στόρθυγξ (stórthunx, “spike, tine”). Rather Pre-Greek in view of the suffix.
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /stó.nyks/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈsto.nyks/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈsto.nyks/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈsto.nyks/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈsto.niks/
Noun
στόνῠξ • (stónux) m (genitive στόνῠκος); third declension
- sharp point, as of a rock
- peak of a fang; of a claw
Inflection
Third declension of ὁ στόνῠξ; τοῦ στόνῠκος (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ὁ στόνῠξ ho stónux | τὼ στόνῠκε tṑ stónuke | οἱ στόνῠκες hoi stónukes | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ στόνῠκος toû stónukos | τοῖν στονῠ́κοιν toîn stonúkoin | τῶν στονῠ́κων tôn stonúkōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ στόνῠκῐ tôi stónuki | τοῖν στονῠ́κοιν toîn stonúkoin | τοῖς στόνῠξῐ / στόνῠξῐν toîs stónuxi(n) | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸν στόνῠκᾰ tòn stónuka | τὼ στόνῠκε tṑ stónuke | τοὺς στόνῠκᾰς toùs stónukas | ||||||||||
Vocative | στόνῠξ stónux | στόνῠκε stónuke | στόνῠκες stónukes | ||||||||||
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References
- στόνυξ in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- στόνυξ 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, →ISBN