Styx

English

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Ancient Greek Στύξ (Stúx).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /stɪks/
• Homophone: sticks

Proper noun

Styx

1. (Greek mythology) The river, in Hades, over which the souls of the dead are ferried by Charon.
2. (astronomy) The 5th moon of Pluto, discovered in 2012.

Coordinate terms

• Acheron, Cocytus, Eridanos, Lethe, Phlegethon

Derived terms

• stygian

Translations

river of the underworld

• Bulgarian: Стикс (Stiks)
• Czech: Styx m inan or f
• Danish: Styx
• Dutch: Styx
• Estonian: Styx (et)
• Finnish: Styks
• French: Styx (fr) m
• German: Styx (de)
• Greek: Στυξ f (Styx), Στύγα (el) f (Stýga)

  Ancient Greek: Στύξ f (Stúx)

• Hebrew: סטיקס (stiks)
• Hungarian: Sztüx
• Icelandic: Styx
• Italian: Stige
• Japanese: ステュクス (ja) (Sutyukusu)
• Latin: Styx f
• Lithuanian: Stiksas
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• Luxembourgish: Styx
• Norwegian: Styx
• Persian: استیکس (fa) (estiks), استوکس (estuks)
• Polish: Styks
• Portuguese: Estige m
• Romanian: Styx
• Russian: Стикс (ru) (Stiks)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Стикс

  Roman: Stiks (sh)

• Slovak: Styx
• Slovene: Stiks
• Spanish: Estigia f, Estix f, Estige f
• Swedish: Styx
• Turkish: Stiks
• Ukrainian: Стікс (Stiks)
• Vietnamese: Styx

one of Pluto's moons

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 冥衛五／冥卫五

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• Czech: Styx m inan

See also

• (moons of Pluto) Charon, Styx, Nix, Kerberos, Hydra

Anagrams

• xyst

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Czech

Etymology

From Ancient Greek Στύξ (Stúx).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈstɪks]
• Rhymes: -ɪks

Proper noun

Styx

2. (Greek mythology, masculine inanimate, feminine) 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.

3. (Greek mythology, feminine) Styx, the goddess of the river Styx in Hades
   • 1906, Vladislav Kalousek, “Styx”, in Ottův slovník naučný‎^[3], 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.

5. (astronomy, masculine inanimate) Styx, a moon of Pluto [since 2013]
   • 2015 June 4, “Pluto a jeho měsíce jsou tak trochu splašená mini soustava”, in Česká televize‎^[4]:

     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.

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.) However, when speaking about the goddess of the river, the feminine gender has to be used.

Declension

masculine inanimate

feminine

Derived terms

• stygický
• styžský
• styxský

See also

Solar System in Czech · sluneční soustava (layout · text)
Star	Slunce
IAU planets and notable dwarf planets	Merkur	Venuše	Země	Mars	Ceres	Jupiter	Saturn	Uran	Neptun	Pluto	Eris
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

Further reading

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French

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Ancient Greek Στύξ (Stúx).

Proper noun

Styx m

1. Styx

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Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek Στύξ (Stúx).

Proper noun

Styx f sg (genitive Stygis or Stygos); third declension

1. The river 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.