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
Inflection
    
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, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,026
 - Στύξ in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
 
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