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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From Pre-Greek.[1]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /más.tiːks/ → /ˈmas.tiks/ → /ˈmas.tiks/
Noun
μάστῑξ • (mástīx) f (genitive μάστῑγος); third declension
- (mostly for driving horses) whip, scourge
- Synonym: μάραγνα (máragna)
- (figurative) lash of eloquence
- (figurative) scourge, plague
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References
Further reading
- “μάστιξ”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “μάστιξ”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “μάστιξ”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- μάστιξ in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- μάστιξ in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- “μάστιξ”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
- G3148 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
- μάστιξ in Trapp, Erich, et al. (1994–2007) Lexikon zur byzantinischen Gräzität besonders des 9.-12. Jahrhunderts [the Lexicon of Byzantine Hellenism, Particularly the 9th–12th Centuries], Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.