Styx
pronunciation
How to pronounce Styx in British English:
UK [stiks]
How to pronounce Styx in American English:
US [stɪks]
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- Noun:
- (Greek mythology) a river in Hades across which Charon carried dead souls
Word Origin
- Styx
- late 14c., the Greek river of the Underworld, literally "the Hateful," cognate with Greek stygos "hatred," stygnos "gloomy," from stygein "to hate, abominate," from PIE *stug-, extended form of root *steu- (1) "to push, stick, knock, beat." Oaths sworn by it were supremely binding and even the gods feared to break them. The adjective is Stygian.
Example
- 1. They 're standing there on the far bank of river styx .
- 2. But when thetis , achilles 's mother , dipped her baby in the river styx to give him the gift of invulnerability , she had to hold him somewhere .
- 3. Is this a part of styx agreement ?
- 4. So venus gave psyche more impossible tasks , such as to fetch thegolden wool of some fierce sheep and to obtain black water from theriver styx .
- 5. The river styx is perhaps the most famous ; the other rivers are phlegethon , lethe , and acheron .