πνίξ
Ancient Greek
Etymology
The formation is similar to φρίξ (phríx). According to Beekes, possibly from Pre-Greek, like πνίγω (pnígō, “to choke, asphyxiate”).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /pníks/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /pniks/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /pniks/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /pniks/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /pniks/
Declension
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ἡ πνῐ́ξ hē pníx |
τὼ πνῐ́γε tṑ pníge |
αἱ πνῐ́γες hai pníges | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τῆς πνῐγός tês pnigós |
τοῖν πνῐγοῖν toîn pnigoîn |
τῶν πνῐγῶν tôn pnigôn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῇ πνῐγῐ́ têi pnigí |
τοῖν πνῐγοῖν toîn pnigoîn |
ταῖς πνῐξῐ́ / πνῐξῐ́ν taîs pnixí(n) | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὴν πνῐ́γᾰ tḕn pníga |
τὼ πνῐ́γε tṑ pníge |
τᾱ̀ς πνῐ́γᾰς tā̀s pnígas | ||||||||||
| Vocative | πνῐ́ξ pníx |
πνῐ́γε pníge |
πνῐ́γες pníges | ||||||||||
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Descendants
- → Latin: pnix
Further reading
- “πνίξ”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- πνίξ 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
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