Στύξ

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From the same source as στυγνός (stugnós, “gloomy”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /stýks/ → /styks/ → /stiks/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /stýks/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /styks/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /styks/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /styks/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /stiks/

Proper noun

Στύξ • (Stúx) f (genitive Στῠγός); third declension

1. the river Styx
2. 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
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

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: Estige
• → 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^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,026
• Στύξ in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette