νύξ

See also: Νύξ

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From Proto-Hellenic *nukts, from Proto-Indo-European *nókʷts (“night”). Cognates include Latin nox, Sanskrit नक्त् (nákt), Old Church Slavonic нощь (noštĭ), Albanian natë and Old English niht (whence English night).[1]

Pronunciation

 

Noun

νῠ́ξ • (nŭ́x) f (genitive νῠκτός); third declension

  1. night

Declension

Third declension of ἡ νῠ́ξ; τῆς νῠκτός (Attic)
Case / # Singular Dual Plural
Nominative ἡ νῠ́ξ
hē nŭ́x 		τὼ νῠ́κτε
tṑ nŭ́kte 		αἱ νῠ́κτες
hai nŭ́ktes
Genitive τῆς νῠκτός
tês nŭktós 		τοῖν νῠκτοῖν
toîn nŭktoîn 		τῶν νῠκτῶν
tôn nŭktôn
Dative τῇ νῠκτῐ́
tēî nŭktĭ́ 		τοῖν νῠκτοῖν
toîn nŭktoîn 		ταῖς νῠξῐ́ / νῠξῐ́ν
taîs nŭxĭ́(n)
Accusative τὴν νῠ́κτᾰ
tḕn nŭ́ktă 		τὼ νῠ́κτε
tṑ nŭ́kte 		τᾱ̀ς νῠ́κτᾰς
tā̀s nŭ́ktăs
Vocative νῠ́ξ
nŭ́x 		νῠ́κτε
nŭ́kte 		νῠ́κτες
nŭ́ktes
Notes:
  • This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Greek: νυξ (nyx), νύκτα (nýkta), νύχτα (nýchta)
  • Italiot Greek: νύφτα (nýfta)
  • Mariupol Greek: ны́хта (nýxta)
  • Tsakonian: νιούτθα (nioúttha)

References

  1. ^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010), “νύξ , νυκτός”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 1027

Further reading

  • “νύξ”, in Liddell & Scott (1940), A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • Woodhouse, S. C. (1910), English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,018
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