στοά
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Ancient Greek
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Hellenic *stōyyā́, from Proto-Indo-European *stoh₂-w-ih₂, ultimately from the root *steh₂- (“to stand”), whence also στῦλος (stûlos, “column, pillar”). Cognates include Old English stōwian, stōw (English stow), Sanskrit स्थावर (sthāvará), Persian ستاوند (sotâvand), Kurdish, Lithuanian stovéti, stovà, Old Church Slavonic ставити (staviti). Compare ἵστημι (hístēmi, “to stand”).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /sto.ǎː/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /stoˈa/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /stoˈa/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /stoˈa/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /stoˈa/
Noun
[edit]στοᾱ́ • (stoā́) f (genitive στοᾶς); first declension
- a colonnade
- a roofed porch or walkway having one or more aisles framed and supported by one or more colonnades: portico; arcade, cloister, piazza (e.g. the Stoa Basileios and the Stoa Poikile in the ancient Agora of Athens).
- a building marked by having such a roofed and colonnaded porch or walkway (e.g. the Stoa of Attalos in the ancient Agora of Athens).
- royal court
Inflection
[edit]Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ἡ στοᾱ́ hē stoā́ |
τὼ στοᾱ́ tṑ stoā́ |
αἱ στοαί hai stoaí | ||||||||||
Genitive | τῆς στοᾶς tês stoâs |
τοῖν στοαῖν toîn stoaîn |
τῶν στοῶν tôn stoôn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῇ στοᾷ têi stoâi |
τοῖν στοαῖν toîn stoaîn |
ταῖς στοαῖς taîs stoaîs | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὴν στοᾱ́ν tḕn stoā́n |
τὼ στοᾱ́ tṑ stoā́ |
τᾱ̀ς στοᾱ́ς tā̀s stoā́s | ||||||||||
Vocative | στοᾱ́ stoā́ |
στοᾱ́ stoā́ |
στοαί stoaí | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
[edit]Related terms
[edit]- κῑ́ων (kī́ōn, “column,pillar”)
- στῦλος (stûlos, “column,pillar”)
- Στωῐ̈κός (Stōïkós, “a Stoic, a practitioner of Stoicism”)
Descendants
[edit]References
[edit]- “στοά”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- στοά 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
- G4745 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
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- Ancient Greek terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Ancient Greek terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *steh₂-
- Ancient Greek terms inherited from Proto-Hellenic
- Ancient Greek terms derived from Proto-Hellenic
- Ancient Greek 2-syllable words
- Ancient Greek terms with IPA pronunciation
- Ancient Greek lemmas
- Ancient Greek nouns
- Ancient Greek oxytone terms
- Ancient Greek feminine nouns
- Ancient Greek first-declension nouns
- Ancient Greek feminine nouns in the first declension
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