στίξ

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From the root of στείχω (steíkhō, “walk, march, go or come, march in line or order”), from Proto-Indo-European *steygʰ- (“to walk”).

Cognate with German steigen, English sty, stair, stile and possibly Latin vestīgō. See also στοῖχος (stoîkhos, “row in an ascending series, column”) and στίχος (stíkhos, “row, line, rank, file (of soldiers); line of poetry”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /stíks/ → /stiks/ → /stiks/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /stíks/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /stiks/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /stiks/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /stiks/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /stiks/

Noun

στίξ • (stíx) f (genitive στῐχός); third declension

1. a row or file of soldiers
2. a line of poetry, a verse

Declension

Third declension of ἡ στῐ́ξ; τῆς στῐχός (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ στῐ́ξ hē stíx	τὼ στῐ́χε tṑ stíkhe	αἱ στῐ́χες hai stíkhes
Genitive	τῆς στῐχός tês stikhós	τοῖν στῐχοῖν toîn stikhoîn	τῶν στῐχῶν tôn stikhôn
Dative	τῇ στῐχῐ́ têi stikhí	τοῖν στῐχοῖν toîn stikhoîn	ταῖς στῐξῐ́ / στῐξῐ́ν taîs stixí(n)
Accusative	τὴν στῐ́χᾰ tḕn stíkha	τὼ στῐ́χε tṑ stíkhe	τᾱ̀ς στῐ́χᾰς tā̀s stíkhas
Vocative	στῐ́ξ stíx	στῐ́χε stíkhe	στῐ́χες stíkhes
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Further reading

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