A modern coinage on the pattern of Amoraim, Tannaim, etc, from Hebrewסְתָם(stam, literally “plain”), used to describe the anonymous commentary in the Talmud.
Any of the rabbis who composed the anonymousstatements and arguments in the Talmud, some of whom may have worked during the period of the Amoraim, but who mostly made their contributions later.
