στρίξ
Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
- στλίξ (stlíx)
- στρίγξ (strínx)
Etymology
The formation is similar to γλαῦξ (glaûx) and λύγξ (lúnx). The Greek word is often assumed to be influenced by or derived from τρίζω (trízō, “to squeak”), but its facultative nasal may point to a Pre-Greek origin.
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /stríks/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /striks/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /striks/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /striks/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /striks/
Inflection
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ἡ στρί̆ξ hē stríx |
τὼ στρῐ́γε tṑ stríge |
αἱ στρῐ́γες hai stríges | ||||||||||
Genitive | τῆς στρῐγός tês strigós |
τοῖν στρῐγοῖν toîn strigoîn |
τῶν στρῐγῶν tôn strigôn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῇ στρῐγῐ́ têi strigí |
τοῖν στρῐγοῖν toîn strigoîn |
ταῖς στρῐξῐ́ / στρῐξῐ́ν taîs strixí(n) | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὴν στρῐ́γᾰ tḕn stríga |
τὼ στρῐ́γε tṑ stríge |
τᾱ̀ς στρῐ́γᾰς tā̀s strígas | ||||||||||
Vocative | στρί̆ξ stríx |
στρῐ́γε stríge |
στρῐ́γες stríges | ||||||||||
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Descendants
Further reading
- “στρίξ”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- στρίξ 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
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