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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *steh₂- (“to stand”), the same root of σταθμός (stathmós, “stall, pen”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /státʰ.mɛː/ → /ˈstaθ.mi/ → /ˈstaθ.mi/
Noun
στᾰ́θμη • (státhmē) f (genitive στᾰ́θμης); first declension
- carpenter's line or rule
- Synonym: ἀλφάδιον (alphádion)
- plummet or plumb line
- line which bounds the racecourse, goal
- (figuratively) law, rule
Inflection
Derived terms
Descendants
Further reading
- “στάθμη”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “στάθμη”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- στάθμη in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- 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
Greek
Noun
στάθμη • (státhmi) f (uncountable)
- level
- η στάθμη της θάλασσας ― i státhmi tis thálassas ― the level of the sea
- (figuratively) level (of education, sophistication etc)
Declension
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See also
- αλφάδι n (alfádi, “spirit level”)