Styx
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English
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Ancient Greek Στύξ (Stúx).
Pronunciation
Proper noun
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.
- 2014, “O Father O Satan O Sun!”, performed by Behemoth:
- Bornless one / As darkness bright / Found not in tongues / Found not in light / Bring down the rain / Drain waters of Styx / Faustian luminary / Redeem blaspheme / Like a day without the dawn / Like a ray void of the sun / Like a storm that brings no calm / I'm most complete yet so undone
- (astronomy) The 5th moon of Pluto, discovered in 2012.
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Translations
river of the underworld
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one of Pluto's moons
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Czech
Etymology
Borrowed from Ancient Greek Στύξ (Stúx).
Pronunciation
Proper noun
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.
Declension
Proper noun
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.
Usage notes
- 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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Notable moons |
— | — | Měsíc | Phobos/Fobos Deimos |
— | Io Europa Ganymed Callisto |
Mimas Enceladus Tethys Dione Rhea Titan Iapetus |
Miranda Ariel Umbriel Titania Oberon |
Triton | Charon | Dysnomia |
References
Further reading
- “Styx”, in Kartotéka Novočeského lexikálního archivu (in Czech)
- “Styx”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
French
Etymology
From Ancient Greek Στύξ (Stúx).
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Styx m or f
German
Etymology
Borrowed from Ancient Greek Στύξ (Stúx).
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Styx m (proper noun, strong, genitive Styx)
Declension
Declension of Styx [sg-only, masculine, strong]
Further reading
- Styx on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia de
Latin
Etymology
From Ancient Greek Στύξ (Stúx).
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /styks/, [s̠t̪ʏks̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /stiks/, [st̪iks]
Proper noun
Styx f sg (genitive Stygis or Stygos); third declension
- The river Styx
Declension
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
- “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.
Turkish
Proper noun
Styx
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