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 stĭ́ă	τὼ στῐ́ᾱ tṑ stĭ́ā	αἱ στῐ́αι hai stĭ́ai
Genitive	τῆς στῐ́ᾱς tês stĭ́ās	τοῖν στῐ́αιν toîn stĭ́ain	τῶν στῐῶν tôn stĭôn
Dative	τῇ στῐ́ᾳ têi stĭ́āi	τοῖν στῐ́αιν toîn stĭ́ain	ταῖς στῐ́αις taîs stĭ́ais
Accusative	τὴν στῐ́ᾰν tḕn stĭ́ăn	τὼ στῐ́ᾱ tṑ stĭ́ā	τᾱ̀ς στῐ́ᾱς tā̀s stĭ́ās
Vocative	στῐ́ᾰ stĭ́ă	στῐ́ᾱ stĭ́ā	στῐ́αι stĭ́ai
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