Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• στάλα ‎(stála) (Doric)
• στάλλα ‎(stálla) (Aeolic)
• στήλλη ‎(stḗllē) (later Greek)

Noun

στήλη • ‎(stḗlē) f ‎(genitive στήλης); first declension

1. An upright stone or slab
2. A post, a pillar, a column
3. An engraved stone; a monument, particularly tombstones or boundary markers

Inflection

References

• στήλη in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• «στήλη» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
• «στήλη» in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English-Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • block idem, page 84.
  • column idem, page 144.
  • gravestone idem, page 371.
  • memorial idem, page 524.
  • monument idem, page 539.
  • pillar idem, page 613.
  • post idem, page 629.
  • slab idem, page 782.
  • stone idem, page 819.
  • table idem, page 851.
  • tablet idem, page 851.
  • tomb-stone idem, page 879.
  • turning idem, page 902.
• Andrew L. Sihler (1995) New Comparative Grammar of Greek and Latin, New York, Oxford, Oxford University Press

Greek

Etymology

From Ancient Greek στήλη ‎(stḗlē).

Noun

στήλη • ‎(stíli) f ‎(plural στήλες)

1. (architecture) column, stele
2. (chess) file

Declension

Synonyms

• κολώνα f ‎(kolóna)