στήμων
Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
- στάμων (stámōn) – Doric
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *stéh₂mn̥ (“that which stands, stature”). Cognate with Latin stāmen and Ancient Greek στάμνος (stámnos, “jar”). Synchronically analysableas ἵστημι (hístēmi) + -μων (-mōn)
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /stɛ̌ː.mɔːn/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈste̝.mon/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈsti.mon/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈsti.mon/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈsti.mon/
Noun
στήμων • (stḗmōn) m (genitive στήμονος); third declension
- warp in the upright loom
- thread
Inflection
Third declension of ὁ στήμων; τοῦ στήμονος (Attic)
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ὁ στήμων ho stḗmōn | τὼ στήμονε tṑ stḗmone | οἱ στήμονες hoi stḗmones | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τοῦ στήμονος toû stḗmonos | τοῖν στημόνοιν toîn stēmónoin | τῶν στημόνων tôn stēmónōn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῷ στήμονῐ tôi stḗmoni | τοῖν στημόνοιν toîn stēmónoin | τοῖς στήμοσῐ / στήμοσῐν toîs stḗmosi(n) | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὸν στήμονᾰ tòn stḗmona | τὼ στήμονε tṑ stḗmone | τοὺς στήμονᾰς toùs stḗmonas | ||||||||||
| Vocative | στῆμον stêmon | στήμονε stḗmone | στήμονες stḗmones | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
- στημνίον (stēmníon)
- στημονίας (stēmonías)
- στημονίζομαι (stēmonízomai)
- στημονικός (stēmonikós)
- στημόνιον (stēmónion)
- στημονώδης (stēmonṓdēs)
Further reading
- “στήμων”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- στήμων in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- warp idem, page 964.
- 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