στόνυξ

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Assumed to be a cross of ὄνυξ (ónux, “nail”) and στόχος (stókhos, “pillar of brick”), στάχυς (stákhus, “ear of wheat”) or στόρθυγξ (stórthunx, “spike, tine”). Beekes suggests it's Pre-Greek in view of the suffix.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /stó.nyks/ → /ˈsto.nyks/ → /ˈsto.niks/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /stó.nyks/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈsto.nyks/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈsto.nyks/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈsto.nyks/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈsto.niks/

Noun

στόνῠξ • (stónux) m (genitive στόνῠκος); third declension

1. sharp point, as of a rock
2. peak of a fang; of a claw

Inflection

Third declension of ὁ στόνῠξ; τοῦ στόνῠκος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ στόνῠξ ho stónux	τὼ στόνῠκε tṑ stónuke	οἱ στόνῠκες hoi stónukes
Genitive	τοῦ στόνῠκος toû stónukos	τοῖν στονῠ́κοιν toîn stonúkoin	τῶν στονῠ́κων tôn stonúkōn
Dative	τῷ στόνῠκῐ tôi stónuki	τοῖν στονῠ́κοιν toîn stonúkoin	τοῖς στόνῠξῐ / στόνῠξῐν toîs stónuxi(n)
Accusative	τὸν στόνῠκᾰ tòn stónuka	τὼ στόνῠκε tṑ stónuke	τοὺς στόνῠκᾰς toùs stónukas
Vocative	στόνῠξ stónux	στόνῠκε stónuke	στόνῠκες stónukes
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

References

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