στάθμη

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *steh₂- (“to stand”), the same root of σταθμός (stathmós, “stall, pen”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /státʰ.mɛː/ → /ˈstaθ.mi/ → /ˈstaθ.mi/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /státʰ.mɛː/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈstatʰ.me̝/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈstaθ.mi/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈstaθ.mi/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈstaθ.mi/

Noun

στᾰ́θμη • (státhmē) f (genitive στᾰ́θμης); first declension

1. carpenter's line or rule

   Synonym: ἀλφάδιον (alphádion)

2. plummet or plumb line
3. line which bounds the racecourse, goal
4. (figuratively) law, rule

Inflection

First declension of ἡ στᾰ́θμη; τῆς στᾰ́θμης (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ στᾰ́θμη hē státhmē	τὼ στᾰ́θμᾱ tṑ státhmā	αἱ στᾰ́θμαι hai státhmai
Genitive	τῆς στᾰ́θμης tês státhmēs	τοῖν στᾰ́θμαιν toîn státhmain	τῶν στᾰθμῶν tôn stathmôn
Dative	τῇ στᾰ́θμῃ têi státhmēi	τοῖν στᾰ́θμαιν toîn státhmain	ταῖς στᾰ́θμαις taîs státhmais
Accusative	τὴν στᾰ́θμην tḕn státhmēn	τὼ στᾰ́θμᾱ tṑ státhmā	τᾱ̀ς στᾰ́θμᾱς tā̀s státhmās
Vocative	στᾰ́θμη státhmē	στᾰ́θμᾱ státhmā	στᾰ́θμαι státhmai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• κρεοστάθμη (kreostáthmē)

Descendants

• Greek: στάθμη (státhmi)

Further reading

• “στάθμη”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “στάθμη”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• στάθμη in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN

Greek

Noun

στάθμη • (státhmi) f (uncountable)

1. level

   η στάθμη της θάλασσας ― i státhmi tis thálassas ― the level of the sea

2. (figuratively) level (of education, sophistication etc)

Declension

  στάθμη

case     \     number	singular
nominative	στάθμη •
genitive	στάθμης •
accusative	στάθμη •
vocative	στάθμη •

See also

• αλφάδι n (alfádi, “spirit level”)