stele

See also stèle

English

Wikipedia

The gravestone of Pollis (c. 480 BCE), a funerary stele of a hoplite from Megara. It is in the collection of the Getty Villa in Pacific Palisades, California, USA.

Pronunciation

• IPA: /stiːl/, /ˈstiːli/
• Homophones: steal, steel

Etymology 1

From Ancient Greek στήλη (stēlē, “pillar”).

Noun

stele (plural steles)

1. (archaeology) A tall, slender stone monument, often with writing carved into its surface
   • Alternative forms: stela
2. (botany) The central core of the root and shoot system, especially including the vascular tissue.
3. (archery) The body of the arrow.

Derived terms

actinostele atactostele dictyostele

eustele haplostele plectostele

protostele siphonostele solenostele

Translations

(archaeology) tall, slender stone monument

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 石碑 (cmn) (shíbēi), 碑 (cmn) (bēi)

• Czech: stéla (cs) f
• Finnish: steele (fi), steela (fi)

• French: stèle (fr) f
• German: Stele (de) f
• Japanese: 石碑 (ja) (せきひ, sekihi), 碑 (ja) (いしぶみ, ishibumi)
• Russian: стела (ru) (stɛ́la) f 

(botany) central core of the root and shoot system

• Finnish: varsi (fi)

• Russian: стель (ru) (stelʹ) f 

(archery) the body of an arrow

• Finnish: varsi (fi)

Etymology 2

See stale (“a handle”).

Noun

stele (plural steles)

1. (obsolete) A stale, or handle; a stalk.

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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.

Anagrams

• leets
• sleet
• steel
• teles

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Dutch

Verb

stele

1. singular present subjunctive of stelen

Anagrams

• leest, sleet, slete, steel

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Istro-Romanian

Noun

stele f (plural form of ste)

1. stars

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Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈstɛ.le/
• Rhymes: -ɛle
• Hyphenation: stè‧le

Noun

stele f (invariable)

1. stele (all senses)

Anagrams

• leste

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Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Ancient Greek στήλη (stēlē, “pillar”).

Noun

stele m (definite singular stelen; indefinite plural steler; definite plural stelene)

1. (archaeology) A tall, slender stone monument, often with writing carved into its surface

References

• “stele” in The Bokmål Dictionary – Dokumentasjonsprosjektet.

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology 1

From Ancient Greek στήλη (stēlē, “pillar”).

Noun

stele m (definite singular stelen; indefinite plural stelar; definite plural stelane)

1. (archaeology) tall, slender stone monument, often with writing carved into its surface

Etymology 2

Verb

stele (present tense stel; past tense stal; past participle stole; passive infinitive stelast; present participle stelande; imperative stel)

1. Alternative form of stela.

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Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA: [ˈstele]

Noun

stele f pl

1. Plural form of stea

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Swedish

Adjective

stele

1. absolute definite natural masculine form of stel.