Ancient Greek

Noun

στῦλος • ‎(stûlos) m ‎(genitive στῡ́λου); second declension

1. pillar, column, support
   • 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 2.169.5

     παστὰς λιθίνη μεγάλη καὶ ἠσκημένη στύλοισι τε φοίνικας τὰ δένδρεα

     it is a great colonnade of stone, richly adorned, the pillars made in the form of palm trees

   • New Testament, Revelation 10.1

     καὶ οἱ πόδες αὐτοῦ ὡς στύλοι πυρός

     his feet like pillars of fire

   1. wooden pole
      • 200 BCE – 118 BCE, Polybius, The Histories 1.22.4

        στῦλος ἐν πρώρρᾳ στρογγύλος εἱστήκει

        a round pole was placed in the prow

   2. stile

Declension

Derived terms

Related terms

• στῡλᾰ́ρῐον ‎(stūlárion)
• στῡλῐ́δῐον ‎(stūlídion)
• στῡλῐ́ς ‎(stūlís)
• στῡλῐ́σκος ‎(stūlískos)
• στῡλῑ́της ‎(stūlī́tēs)
• στῡλόω ‎(stūlóō)

Descendants

• English: pygostyle

References

• στῦλος in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• «στῦλος» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• “G4769”, 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.
  • column idem, page 144.
  • pillar idem, page 613.
  • post idem, page 629.
  • prop idem, page 653.
  • stay idem, page 813.
  • support idem, page 841.
• BDAG