στία

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• στίον n (stíon)

Etymology

This item formally agrees with Sanskrit स्तिया (stiyā, “stagnant water”), but the semantics are quite different. An intermediate meaning could be sought in Sanskrit स्त्यान (styāna, “curdled, thick”). Other possible cognates are Proto-Germanic *stainaz (“stone”) and Proto-Slavic *stěna (“rock; lump”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /stí.a/ → /ˈsti.a/ → /ˈsti.a/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /stí.a/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈsti.a/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈsti.a/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈsti.a/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈsti.a/

Noun

στία • (stía) f (genitive στίας); first declension

1. pebble

Declension

First declension of ἡ στῐ́ᾰ; τῆς στῐ́ᾱς (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ στῐ́ᾰ hē stía	τὼ στῐ́ᾱ tṑ stíā	αἱ στῐ́αι hai stíai
Genitive	τῆς στῐ́ᾱς tês stíās	τοῖν στῐ́αιν toîn stíain	τῶν στῐῶν tôn stiôn
Dative	τῇ στῐ́ᾳ têi stíāi	τοῖν στῐ́αιν toîn stíain	ταῖς στῐ́αις taîs stíais
Accusative	τὴν στῐ́ᾰν tḕn stían	τὼ στῐ́ᾱ tṑ stíā	τᾱ̀ς στῐ́ᾱς tā̀s stíās
Vocative	στῐ́ᾰ stía	στῐ́ᾱ stíā	στῐ́αι stíai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• πολύστιος (polústios)
• στιάζει (stiázei)
• στιώδης (stiṓdēs)

Further reading

• “στία”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• 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