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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *stéh₂mn̥ (“that which stands, stature”). Cognate with Latin stāmen and Ancient Greek στάμνος (stámnos, “jar”). By surface analysis, ἵστημι (hístēmi) + -μων (-mōn).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /stɛ̌ː.mɔːn/ → /ˈsti.mon/ → /ˈsti.mon/
Noun
στήμων • (stḗmōn) m (genitive στήμονος); third declension
- warp in the upright loom
- thread
Inflection
Derived terms
Further reading
- “στήμων”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- στήμων in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- 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