st

Translingual

Symbol

st

1. (international standards) ISO 639-1 language code for Sotho.

English

Etymology 1

Imitative. Compare hist.

Alternative forms

• sst

Interjection

st

1. Expressing a sudden desire for silence.

Translations

Etymology 2

Abbreviations.

Noun

st (plural sts)

1. Abbreviation of street. (Usually as “st.” Also as “st”. Sometimes capitalized.)
2. Abbreviation of Saint. (Always capitalized.)
3. Abbreviation of state.
4. Abbreviation of stone. (Not capitalized or usually spaced.)
   • 1992 October 3, Edwina Currie, Diary:

     Weighed myself at the gym and have hit 10st 8lb, a sure sign of things getting out of control—so I can’t even console myself with a chocolate biscuit.

5. Abbreviation of store.
6. (knitting) Abbreviation of stitch.
   • 1998, Kristin Nicholas, Knitting the New Classics, page 63:

     insert right-hand needle bet 2 sts just knitted

   • 2009, Sally Muir, Joanna Osborne, Diana Miller, Pet Projects: The Animal Knits Bible, page 71:

     Knit 1 row. Dec 1 st at each end of next row and at each end of every foll alt row until 2 sts rem.

   • 2011, Barb Brown, Knitting Knee-Highs: Sock Styles from Classic to Contemporary, page 55:

     Change to larger needles and knit 1 rnd in CC, inc 3 (4, 5) sts evenly […]

Derived terms

Translations

Etymology 3

st

1. (stenoscript) Abbreviation of sit, sat, set
2. (stenoscript) Abbreviation of satisfy and related forms of that word (satisfying, satisfied, satisfactory, satisfactorily, satisfaction, etc.)

Anagrams

• T's, TS, Ts, t's, ts

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):

Noun

st f

1. Abbreviation of středa (“Wednesday”).

Declension

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Egyptian

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /sɛt/
  • Conventional anglicization: set

Etymology 1

Pronoun

 c pl f sg 3. enclitic (‘dependent’) pronoun

1. she, her, it, they, them; by Middle Egyptian often, but not exclusively, used for inanimate objects (see usage notes)

Usage notes

By the time of Late Egyptian, this pronoun in the singular was no longer strictly feminine but common to both genders, as it had entirely merged with the masculine equivalent sw through sound change.

This form of pronoun is an enclitic that must directly follow the word it modifies. Its meaning depends on its context:

• When it follows a verb, it indicates the object of the verb.
• In the second and third person when it follows an adjective, it forms the subject of an adjectival sentence.
• When it follows a relative adjective, such as ntj, ntt, or jsṯ, it indicates the subject of the relative clause (usually only in the first person singular and third person common).
• When it follows an imperative, it indicates the subject or the object of the verb.
• When it follows a particle like m.k, it indicates the subject of the clause.
• When attached to a preposition, it indicates the object of the preposition.

Inflection

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of st  

st	st	st
	Optional plural writing, later also for the singular by confusion with the plural	Optional plural writing

For variant forms after this pronoun merged with sw, see that entry.

Derived terms

• stt

Pronoun

 c pl f sg 3. proclitic (‘subject form’) pronoun

1. she, it, they

Usage notes

This form of pronoun is a proclitic that must stand at the beginning of a sentence (generally adverbial) and cannot come after any particles. It always indicates the subject of the sentence.

Inflection

Alternative forms

See under the enclitic pronoun above.

Etymology 2

Noun

 f

1. throne of the king or of a god seen as a king
2. seat of the dead in the heavens or in the sun-god’s barque
3. palace of the king
4. residence
5. household
6. administrative office
7. (with a god’s name) temple or home of a god in the sky or duat
8. grave
9. building
10. place, location
    • c. 2000 BCE – 1900 BCE, Tale of the Shipwrecked Sailor (pHermitage/pPetersburg 1115) lines 153–154:

      ḫpr js jwd.k tw r st pn nj zp mꜣ.k jw pn ḫpr(.w) m nwy

      When your parting from this place comes to pass, you will never again see this island, which will have turned into water.

11. position or rank
12. rightful place or seat
    • c. 1550 BCE – 1295 BCE, Great Hymn to Osiris (Stela of Amenmose, Louvre C 286) lines 22–23:

      šfyt ḥtp.n.s st.s fꜣw mn(.w) r hpw.f

      Dignity, it has taken its seat, and magnificence is established according to his laws.

Inflection

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of st  

Derived terms

Descendants

• Coptic: ⲥⲉ- (se-) in ⲥⲉⲙⲓⲥⲓ (semisi, “birthing stool”)
• Ancient Greek: -σης (-sēs) in Νεφερσης (Nephersēs, epithet of Isis)

Etymology 3

Romanization

st

1. Alternative transliteration of zt.

References

• James P[eter] Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, pages 51, 116.
• Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1926–1961) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN
• Junge, Friedrich (2005) Late Egyptian Grammar: An Introduction, second English edition, Oxford: Griffith Institute, page 77

Ido

Interjection

st

1. hush!, sh!

Latin

Interjection

st

1. shh!, shush!, hush!

References

• “st”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “st”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers

Swedish

Noun

st n

1. Nonstandard spelling of st..