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 • (stónŭx) 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 stónŭx	τὼ στόνῠκε tṑ stónŭke	οἱ στόνῠκες hoi stónŭkes
Genitive	τοῦ στόνῠκος toû stónŭkos	τοῖν στονῠ́κοιν toîn stonŭ́koin	τῶν στονῠ́κων tôn stonŭ́kōn
Dative	τῷ στόνῠκῐ tôi stónŭkĭ	τοῖν στονῠ́κοιν toîn stonŭ́koin	τοῖς στόνῠξῐ / στόνῠξῐν toîs stónŭxĭ(n)
Accusative	τὸν στόνῠκᾰ tòn stónŭkă	τὼ στόνῠκε tṑ stónŭke	τοὺς στόνῠκᾰς toùs stónŭkăs
Vocative	στόνῠξ stónŭx	στόνῠκε stónŭke	στόνῠκες stónŭkes
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