Ancient Greek

Noun

στέγη • ‎(stégē) f ‎(genitive στέγης); first declension

1. roof, ceiling
2. shelter
3. (by extension) roofed place, chamber, room
4. (by extension) storey of a house
5. (by extension) house, dwelling
6. (by extension) deck of a ship

Inflection

Related terms

• στέγος ‎(stégos)

References

• στέγη in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• «στέγη» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• “G4721”, in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English-Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • apartment idem, page 33.
  • chamber idem, page 123.
  • dwelling idem, page 257.
  • house idem, page 408.
  • room idem, page 721.

Greek

Noun

στέγη • ‎(stégi) f ‎(plural στέγες)

1. roof (of house, etc)
2. (figuratively) house

Declension

Synonyms

• σκεπή f ‎(skepí)