Styx
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From Ancient Greek Στύξ (Stúx).
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Styx
- (Greek mythology) The river, in Hades, over which the souls of the dead are ferried by Charon.
- Coordinate terms: Acheron, Cocytus, Eridanus, Lethe, Phlegethon
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, page 13:
- A bold bad man, that dar'd to call by name / Great Gorgon, prince of darknes and dead night, / At which Cocytus quakes and Styx is put to flight.
- 1837, Thomas Carlyle, chapter IV, in The French Revolution: A History […], volume I (The Bastille), London: Chapman and Hall, →OCLC, book IV (States-General):
- For two-and-twenty years he [Doctor Guillotin], unguillotined, shall hear nothing but guillotine, see nothing but guillotine; then dying, shall through long centuries wander, as it were, a disconsolate ghost, on the wrong side of Styx and Lethe; his name like to outlive Cæsar’s.
- (astronomy) The 5th moon of Pluto, discovered in 2012.
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river of the underworld
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Borrowed from Ancient Greek Στύξ (Stúx).
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Styx m inan
- (Greek mythology) Styx, the river in Hades, over which the souls of the dead are ferried by Charon
- 1906, Vladislav Kalousek, “Styx”, in Ottův slovník naučný[2], volume XXIV, Praha: J. Otto, page 315:
- V podsvětí pak ze Stygy opět vyvěrá Kókytos.
- The Kokytos issues from the Styx in the Underworld.
- (astronomy) Styx, a moon of Pluto [since 2013]
- 2015 June 4, “Pluto a jeho měsíce jsou tak trochu splašená mini soustava”, in Česká televize[3]:
- Nix, Hydra a podle přesvědčení vědců i Kerberos a Styx mají navíc spíš oválný než kulatý tvar, což ještě víc přispívá k jejich nepředvídatelným oběžným drahám.
- The shape of Nix, Hydra and, as scientists are convinced, also Kerberos and Styx is more oval than round, which contributes to unpredictibility of their orbits even more.
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Styx f
- (Greek mythology) Styx, the goddess of the river Styx in Hades
- 1906, Vladislav Kalousek, “Styx”, in Ottův slovník naučný[4], volume XXIV, Praha: J. Otto, page 315:
- […] děti její stále obklopují trůn Zévův a Styx stala se bohyní božské přísahy.
- […] her children keep surrounding the Zeus's throne and Styx became the goddess of the divine oath.
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- The grammatical gender of Styx in the sense of the mythological river can be both masculine and feminine, but the feminine seems obsolete. Current grammar manuals suggest only masculine. (The feminine gender was proposed e. g. in a textbook for secondary schools by M. Blažek in 1877.[1]) However, when speaking about the goddess of the river, the feminine gender has to be used.
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From Ancient Greek Στύξ (Stúx).
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Styx m or f
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Borrowed from Ancient Greek Στύξ (Stúx).
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Styx m (proper noun, strong, genitive Styx)
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Declension of Styx [sg-only, masculine, strong]
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- Styx on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia de
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From Ancient Greek Στύξ (Stúx).
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- (Classical) IPA(key): /styks/, [s̠t̪ʏks̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /stiks/, [st̪iks]
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Styx f sg (genitive Stygis or Stygos); third declension
- The river Styx
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Third-declension noun (Greek-type, normal variant or non-Greek-type), singular only.
Case | Singular |
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Nominative | Styx |
Genitive | Stygos Stygis |
Dative | Stygī |
Accusative | Styga Stygem |
Ablative | Styge |
Vocative | Styx |
References edit
- “Styx”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- Styx in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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Styx