Νύξ

Where it lives

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What it meant

This reads as a proper name — a river, a person, a place — held only because the corpus attests it. It stands outside the library's subject, the vocabulary of the soul, so no lexicon entry is recorded.

Where it came from

• Beekes, Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Brill 2010) Treated in Beekes, Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Brill 2010) s.v. Νύξ (scan pp. 1078-1079; entry #4374). Root candidates: *nokt-, *nokterino-, *snuso-.
• Chantraine, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue grecque Treated in Chantraine, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue grecque s.v. Νύξ (scan p. 776; entry #5691).
• Frisk, Griechisches etymologisches Worterbuch Treated in Frisk, Griechisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. Νύξ (scan pp. 1299-1300; entry #4126). Root candidates: *nogt-.

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