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Ancient Greek
Etymology
Unknown. Previously explained as ἀνα- (ana-, “up”) + a root noun belonging to τεύχω (teúkhō, “to make, do”), but this is highly questionable. The word resembles ἄμπυξ (ámpux) and καταῖτυξ (kataîtux), both without etymology.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /án.tyks/ → /ˈan.tyks/ → /ˈan.diks/
Noun
ἄντῠξ • (ántux) f (genitive ἄντῠγος); third declension
- rim of a round shield
- rail around the chariot
- the chariot itself
- bridge of the lyre
- outermost tier in a theatre
- (astronomy) orbit of a planet
- (architecture) basis of a cupola
Declension
Further reading
- “ἄντυξ”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ἄντυξ”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “ἄντυξ”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- ἄντυξ in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- ἄντυξ in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
- 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