στείνω
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]From στενός (stenós, “narrow”).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /stěː.nɔː/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈsti.no/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈsti.no/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈsti.no/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈsti.no/
Verb
[edit]στείνω • (steínō)
- to straiten, confine, coop up, crowd
- to become strait, be narrowed
- to be or become full, be thronged
- (figuratively) to be straitened, distressed
Conjugation
[edit] Present: στείνω, στείνομαι
Imperfect: ἔστεινον, ἐστεινόμην
number | singular | dual | plural | ||||||||||
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first | second | third | second | third | first | second | third | ||||||
active | indicative | ἔστεινον | ἔστεινες | ἔστεινε(ν) | ἐστείνετον | ἐστεινέτην | ἐστείνομεν | ἐστείνετε | ἔστεινον | ||||
middle/ passive |
indicative | ἐστεινόμην | ἐστείνου | ἐστείνετο | ἐστείνεσθον | ἐστεινέσθην | ἐστεινόμεθᾰ | ἐστείνεσθε | ἐστείνοντο | ||||
Notes: | This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For conjugation in dialects other than Attic, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal conjugation.
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Derived terms
[edit]- στεῖνος (steînos)
Further reading
[edit]- “στείνω”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “στείνω”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “στείνω”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- στείνω in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- στείνω in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963