στέγη
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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From στέγω (stégō, “to cover”) + -η (-ē, action noun suffix).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /sté.ɡɛː/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈste.ɡe̝/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈste.ʝi/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈste.ʝi/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈste.ʝi/
Noun
στέγη • (stégē) f (genitive στέγης); first declension
- roof, ceiling
- shelter
- (by extension) roofed place, chamber, room
- (by extension) storey of a house
- (by extension) house, dwelling
- (by extension) deck of a ship
Inflection
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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| Nominative | ἡ στέγη hē stégē |
τὼ στέγᾱ tṑ stégā |
αἱ στέγαι hai stégai | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τῆς στέγης tês stégēs |
τοῖν στέγαιν toîn stégain |
τῶν στεγῶν tôn stegôn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῇ στέγῃ têi stégēi |
τοῖν στέγαιν toîn stégain |
ταῖς στέγαις taîs stégais | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὴν στέγην tḕn stégēn |
τὼ στέγᾱ tṑ stégā |
τᾱ̀ς στέγᾱς tā̀s stégās | ||||||||||
| Vocative | στέγη stégē |
στέγᾱ stégā |
στέγαι stégai | ||||||||||
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Related terms
- στέγος (stégos)
Descendants
Further reading
- “στέγη”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- στέγη in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- G4721 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
Greek
Etymology
From Ancient Greek στέγη (stégē).
Noun
στέγη • (stégi) f (plural στέγες)
- roof (of house, etc)
- (figuratively) house
Declension
declension of στέγη
Synonyms
- σκεπή f (skepí)
Further reading
στέγη on the Greek Wikipedia.Wikipedia el
