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 stĭ́x	τὼ στῐ́χε tṑ stĭ́khe	αἱ στῐ́χες hai stĭ́khes
Genitive	τῆς στῐχός tês stĭkhós	τοῖν στῐχοῖν toîn stĭkhoîn	τῶν στῐχῶν tôn stĭkhôn
Dative	τῇ στῐχῐ́ têi stĭkhĭ́	τοῖν στῐχοῖν toîn stĭkhoîn	ταῖς στῐξῐ́ / στῐξῐ́ν taîs stĭxĭ́(n)
Accusative	τὴν στῐ́χᾰ tḕn stĭ́khă	τὼ στῐ́χε tṑ stĭ́khe	τᾱ̀ς στῐ́χᾰς tā̀s stĭ́khăs
Vocative	στῐ́ξ stĭ́x	στῐ́χε stĭ́khe	στῐ́χες stĭ́khes
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