Στύξ
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From the same source as στυγνός (stugnós, “gloomy”).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /stýks/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /styks/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /styks/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /styks/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /stiks/
Proper noun
Στύξ • (Stúx) f (genitive Στῠγός); third declension
- the river Styx
- Styx, a goddess or a nymph in Greek mythology
Inflection
Third declension of ἡ Στῠ́ξ; τῆς Στῠγός (Attic)
| Case / # | Singular | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ἡ Στῠ́ξ hē Stúx | ||||||||||||
| Genitive | τῆς Στῠγός tês Stugós | ||||||||||||
| Dative | τῇ Στῠγῐ́ têi Stugí | ||||||||||||
| Accusative | τὴν Στῠ́γᾰ tḕn Stúga | ||||||||||||
| Vocative | Στῠ́ξ Stúx | ||||||||||||
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Derived terms
- Στῠ́γῐος (Stúgios)
Descendants
- Greek: Στυξ (Styx), Στύγα (Stýga)
- → Bulgarian: Стикс (Stiks)
- → Czech: Styx
- → Danish: Styx
- → Dutch: Styx
- → English: Styx
- → Estonian: Styx
- → Finnish: Styks
- → French: Styx
- → German: Styx
- → Hebrew: סטיקס
- → Hungarian: Sztüx
- → Icelandic: Styx
- → Italian: Stige
- → Japanese: ステュクス (Sutyukusu)
- → Latin: Styx
- → Lithuanian: Stiksas
- → Luxembourgish: Styx
- → Norwegian: Styx
- → Polish: Styks
- → Portuguese: Styx
- → Romanian: Styx
- → Russian: Стикс (Stiks)
- → Serbo-Croatian: Стикс, Stiks
- → Slovak: Styx
- → Slovene: Stiks
- → Spanish: Estigia
- → Swedish: Styx
- → Turkish: Stiks
- → Ukrainian: Стікс (Stiks)
- → Vietnamese: Styx
References
- “Στύξ”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,026
- Στύξ in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette