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Styx en · PROPN

Pronunciation

• /stɪks/
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Etymology

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek Στύξ (Stúx).

Meanings

1. (Greek, with or without the) The river, in Hades, over which the souls of the dead are ferried by Charon.
   • 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. 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, page 13:
   • 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 2014, “O Father O Satan O Sun!”, performed by Behemoth:
   • 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. 1837, Thomas Carlyle, chapter IV, in The French Revolution: A History […], volume I (The Bastille), London: Chapman and Hall, →OCLC, book IV (States-General):
   • The Styx was the best-known river in Hades. […] Hades’ house stood on the shore of the Styx. 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:
2. The 5th moon of Pluto, discovered in 2012.
3. A locality in the Derwent Valley council area, south eastern Tasmania, Australia.

Forms

Coordinates

Cocytus · Lethe · Phlegethon · Kerberos · Acheron · Hydra · Eridanus · Charon · Nix

Deriveds

Styxian · cross the Styx

Relateds

stygian · Stygian

Translations (48)

vi Styx (river of the underworld) · sh Стикс (river of the underworld) · el Στύγα (river of the underworld) · et Styx (river of the underworld) · is Styx (river of the underworld) · ro Styx (river of the underworld) · el Στυξ (river of the underworld) · mr स्टिक्स (river of the underworld) · nl Styx (river of the underworld) · pt Estige (river of the underworld) · he סטיקס (river of the underworld) · mr स्टिक्स (one of Pluto's moons) · sh Stiks (river of the underworld) · da Styx (river of the underworld) · ja ステュクス (river of the underworld) · tr Stiks (river of the underworld) · es Estix (river of the underworld) · fa استوکس (river of the underworld) · grc Στύξ (river of the underworld) · sl Stiks (river of the underworld) · lb Styx (river of the underworld) · ja ステュクス (one of Pluto's moons) · sk Styx (river of the underworld) · cs Styx (one of Pluto's moons) · cs Styx (river of the underworld) · pl Styks (river of the underworld) · fa استیکس (river of the underworld) · it Stige (river of the underworld) · fr Styx (river of the underworld) · uk Стікс (river of the underworld) · hu Sztüx (river of the underworld) · sv Styx (river of the underworld) · bg Стикс (river of the underworld) · eo Stikso (river of the underworld) · ru Стикс (river of the underworld) · de Styx (river of the underworld) · cmn 冥衛五 /冥卫五 (one of Pluto's moons) · ca Estix (river of the underworld) · ca Estix (one of Pluto's moons) · sv Styx (one of Pluto's moons) · no Styx (river of the underworld) · ca Estígia (river of the underworld) · la Styx (river of the underworld) · es Estigia (river of the underworld) · fi Styks (river of the underworld) · es Estige (river of the underworld) · lt Stiksas (river of the underworld) · kmr Stîks (river of the underworld)