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• Stix

語源

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek Στύξ (Stúx).

発音

• IPA: /stɪks/
• 韻: -ɪks
• Homophone: sticks

固有名詞

Styx

1. (with or without the, Greek mythology) The river, in Hades, over which the souls of the dead are ferried by Charon.

   Coordinate terms: Acheron, Cocytus, Eridanus, Lethe, Phlegethon

   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, page 13:

     A bold bad man, that dar'd to call by name / Great Gorgon, prince of darknes and dead night, / At which Cocytus quakes and Styx is put to flight.

   • 1837, Thomas Carlyle, chapter IV, in The French Revolution: A History […], volume I (The Bastille), London: Chapman and Hall, →OCLC, book IV (States-General):

     For two-and-twenty years he [Doctor Guillotin], unguillotined, shall hear nothing but guillotine, see nothing but guillotine; then dying, shall through long centuries wander, as it were, a disconsolate ghost, on the wrong side of Styx and Lethe; his name like to outlive Cæsar’s.

   • 1974, C[ovington] Scott Littleton, “Hades”, in The World Book Encyclopedia, volume 9 (H), Chicago, Ill.: Field Enterprises Educational Corporation, →ISBN, page 4, column 2:

     The Styx was the best-known river in Hades. […] Hades’ house stood on the shore of the Styx.

   • 2014, “O Father O Satan O Sun!”, performed by Behemoth:

     Bornless one / As darkness bright / Found not in tongues / Found not in light / Bring down the rain / Drain waters of Styx / Faustian luminary / Redeem blaspheme / Like a day without the dawn / Like a ray void of the sun / Like a storm that brings no calm / I'm most complete yet so undone

2. (astronomy) The 5th moon of Pluto, discovered in 2012.

   Coordinate terms: Charon, Nix, Kerberos, Hydra

3. A locality in the Derwent Valley council area, south eastern Tasmania, Australia.

派生語

関連する語

参考

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

アナグラム

• xyst

発音

• (Classical Latin) IPA: [ˈstyks]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: [ˈstiks]

固有名詞

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

1. The river Styx

語形変化

Third-declension noun (Greek-type, normal variant or non-Greek-type), singular only.

参照

• “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.