# μάστιξ
## Ancient Greek
### Etymology

From Pre-Greek.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /más.tiːks/ → /ˈmas.tiks/ → /ˈmas.tiks/
* (5th BCE Attic) IPA: /más.tiːks/
* (1st CE Egyptian) IPA: /ˈmas.tiks/
* (4th CE Koine) IPA: /ˈmas.tiks/
* (10th CE Byzantine) IPA: /ˈmas.tiks/
* (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA: /ˈmas.tiks/

### Noun

μάστῑξ • (mástīx) f (genitive μάστῑγος); third declension
* (mostly for driving horses) whip, scourge
    Synonym: μάραγνα (máragna)
** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 5.748
*** 11.532
** 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 4.3
*** 7.56
** 497 BCE – 405 BCE, Sophocles, Ajax 242
** 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Anabasis 3.4..25
** 519 BCE – 422 BCE, Cratinus, Collected Works 275
** 411 BCE, Aristophanes, Thesmophoriazusae 933
** Phryn., Com. 36
** (figurative) lash of eloquence
*** 522 BCE – 443 BCE, Pindar, Pythian Ode 4.219
* (figurative) scourge, plague
** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 12.37
*** 13.812
** 525 BCE – 455 BCE, Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound 682
** 467 BCE, Aeschylus, Seven Against Thebes 608
** 458 BCE, Aeschylus, Agamemnon 642
** The Gospel of Mark 5:34

#### Derived terms

* ἀμαστῑ́γωτος (amastī́gōtos)
* ἀπομαστῑγόω (apomastīgóō)
* γραμματικομάστῑξ (grammatikomástīx)
* δῐᾰμαστιγόω (dĭămastigóō)
* κᾰτᾰμαστίζω (kătămastízō)
* μάστειρᾰ (másteiră)
* μαστιάω (mastiáō)
* μαστῑγέω (mastīgéō)
* μαστῑγῐ́ᾱ (mastīgĭ́ā)
* μαστῑγῐ́ᾱς (mastīgĭ́ās)
* μαστῑγιάω (mastīgiáō)
* μαστῑ́γῐον (mastī́gĭon)
* μαστῑγονομέομαι (mastīgonoméomai)
* μαστῑγονόμος (mastīgonómos)
* μαστῑγοφορέω (mastīgophoréō)
* μαστῑγοφόρος (mastīgophóros)
* μαστῑγόω (mastīgóō)
* μαστῑγώσῐμος (mastīgṓsĭmos)
* μαστῑ́γωσῐς (mastī́gōsĭs)
* μαστῑγωτέος (mastīgōtéos)
* μαστῑγωτῐκός (mastīgōtĭkós)
* μαστίζω (mastízō)
* μαστῑ́κτειρᾰ (mastī́kteiră)
* μαστῑ́κτωρ (mastī́ktōr)
* μαστιστής (mastistḗs)
* μαστίω (mastíō)
* Ὁμηρομάστῑξ (Homēromástīx)
* ὁμομαστῑγίας (homomastīgías)
* προσμαστῑγόω (prosmastīgóō)
* ῥητορομάστῑξ (rhētoromástīx)
* σειρομάστῑξ (seiromástīx)
* συμμαστῑγόω (summastīgóō)
* τριμαστῑγίας (trimastīgías)

### Descendants

* Greek: μάστιγα (mástiga)

### References

* ↑ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “μάστιξ”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 911–912

### 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. lash idem, page 477.scourge idem, page 741.whip idem, page 976.