πνίξ

Ancient Greek

Etymology

The formation is similar to φρίξ (phríx). According to Beekes, possibly from Pre-Greek, like πνίγω (pnígō, “to choke, asphyxiate”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /pníks/ → /pniks/ → /pniks/

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

Noun

πνῐ́ξ • (pníx) f (genitive πνῐγός); third declension

1. choking, suffocation

Declension

Third declension of ἡ πνῐ́ξ; τῆς πνῐγός (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ πνῐ́ξ hē pníx	τὼ πνῐ́γε tṑ pníge	αἱ πνῐ́γες hai pníges
Genitive	τῆς πνῐγός tês pnigós	τοῖν πνῐγοῖν toîn pnigoîn	τῶν πνῐγῶν tôn pnigôn
Dative	τῇ πνῐγῐ́ têi pnigí	τοῖν πνῐγοῖν toîn pnigoîn	ταῖς πνῐξῐ́ / πνῐξῐ́ν taîs pnixí(n)
Accusative	τὴν πνῐ́γᾰ tḕn pníga	τὼ πνῐ́γε tṑ pníge	τᾱ̀ς πνῐ́γᾰς tā̀s pnígas
Vocative	πνῐ́ξ pníx	πνῐ́γε pníge	πνῐ́γες pníges
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• → Latin: pnix

Further reading

• “πνίξ”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• πνίξ 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