στῆριγξ

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Probably from Proto-Indo-European *ster (“strong, steady”), the same root of Old English starian (“to stare”), Proto-Germanic *staraz (“stiff”) and στερεός (stereós, “firm, solid”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /stɛ̂ː.riŋks/ → /ˈsti.riŋks/ → /ˈsti.riŋks/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /stɛ̂ː.riŋks/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈste̝.riŋks/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈsti.riŋks/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈsti.riŋks/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈsti.riŋks/

Noun

στῆρῐγξ • (stêrinx) m (genitive στήρῐγγος); third declension

1. support, prop, stay
2. fork with which the shaft or pole of a chariot was propped

Inflection

Third declension of ὁ στῆρῐγξ; τοῦ στήρῐγγος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ στῆρῐγξ ho stêrinx	τὼ στήρῐγγε tṑ stḗringe	οἱ στήρῐγγες hoi stḗringes
Genitive	τοῦ στήρῐγγος toû stḗringos	τοῖν στηρῐ́γγοιν toîn stēríngoin	τῶν στηρῐ́γγων tôn stēríngōn
Dative	τῷ στήρῐγγῐ tôi stḗringi	τοῖν στηρῐ́γγοιν toîn stēríngoin	τοῖς στήρῐγξῐ / στήρῐγξῐν toîs stḗrinxi(n)
Accusative	τὸν στήρῐγγᾰ tòn stḗringa	τὼ στήρῐγγε tṑ stḗringe	τοὺς στήρῐγγᾰς toùs stḗringas
Vocative	στῆρῐγξ stêrinx	στήρῐγγε stḗringe	στήρῐγγες stḗringes
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Further reading

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