στοά
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.