στατός

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From Proto-Hellenic *statós, from Proto-Indo-European *sth₂tós (“placed, standing”). Cognate with Sanskrit स्थित (sthita, “standing, situated”), Latin status (“fixed, set”), and Old Norse staðr (“restive, stubborn (of a horse)”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /sta.tós/ → /staˈtos/ → /staˈtos/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /sta.tós/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /staˈtos/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /staˈtos/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /staˈtos/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /staˈtos/

Adjective

στᾰτός • (stătós) m (feminine στᾰτή, neuter στᾰτόν); first/second declension

1. placed, standing, stalled
2. reaching to the feet (of a tunic)

Declension

First and second declension of στᾰτός; στᾰτή; στᾰτόν (Attic)

Number		Singular				Dual				Plural
Case/Gender		Masculine	Feminine	Neuter		Masculine	Feminine	Neuter		Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative		στᾰτός stătós	στᾰτή stătḗ	στᾰτόν stătón		στᾰτώ stătṓ	στᾰτᾱ́ stătā́	στᾰτώ stătṓ		στᾰτοί stătoí	στᾰταί stătaí	στᾰτᾰ́ stătắ
Genitive		στᾰτοῦ stătoû	στᾰτῆς stătês	στᾰτοῦ stătoû		στᾰτοῖν stătoîn	στᾰταῖν stătaîn	στᾰτοῖν stătoîn		στᾰτῶν stătôn	στᾰτῶν stătôn	στᾰτῶν stătôn
Dative		στᾰτῷ stătōî	στᾰτῇ stătēî	στᾰτῷ stătōî		στᾰτοῖν stătoîn	στᾰταῖν stătaîn	στᾰτοῖν stătoîn		στᾰτοῖς stătoîs	στᾰταῖς stătaîs	στᾰτοῖς stătoîs
Accusative		στᾰτόν stătón	στᾰτήν stătḗn	στᾰτόν stătón		στᾰτώ stătṓ	στᾰτᾱ́ stătā́	στᾰτώ stătṓ		στᾰτούς stătoús	στᾰτᾱ́ς stătā́s	στᾰτᾰ́ stătắ
Vocative		στᾰτέ stăté	στᾰτή stătḗ	στᾰτόν stătón		στᾰτώ stătṓ	στᾰτᾱ́ stătā́	στᾰτώ stătṓ		στᾰτοί stătoí	στᾰταί stătaí	στᾰτᾰ́ stătắ
Derived forms		Adverb				Comparative				Superlative
		στᾰτῶς stătôs				στᾰτώτερος stătṓteros				στᾰτώτᾰτος stătṓtătos
Notes:		This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• διαστατός (diastatós)
• συστατός (sustatós)
• ὑποστατός (hupostatós)

Descendants

• → English: stato-

Further reading

• “στατός”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891), A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• στατός in Bailly, Anatole (1935), Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• στατός in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924), A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• στατός, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011
• “στατός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940), A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press