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By its appearance through Latin sound laws, this stative verb, against all others of this class in the 2nd conjugation, belongs to the 1st conjugation. The perfect and supine stems are shared with sistō, the corresponding athematic verb from the same Indo-European root.
‘stat mihi nōn parvō virtūs mea: volnera testor armaque, quae sparsī sanguine saepe meō.’
“My bravery costs me no small : I call to witness my scars and weapons, which I have often splattered with my own blood.” (Mezentius replies to a request to fight for Turnus.)
DVENOSMEDFECEDENMANOMEINOMDVENOINEMEDMALOSTATOD duenos mēd fēced en mānōm (m)einom duenōi nē mēd malo(s) statōd
A good man made me (in good intention?) for a good man; may I not be stolen by an evil man.
References
^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “(s)ta”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 584
^ H. Rix, "Das letzte Wort der Duenos-Inschrift", MSS, 46, 1985, pp. 193 ff.; H. Eichner, "Reklameniamben aus Roms Königszeit", Die Sprache, 34, 1988-90, p. 216.
Boryś, Wiesław (2005) “sto”, in Słownik etymologiczny języka polskiego (in Polish), Kraków: Wydawnictwo Literackie, →ISBN
B. Sieradzka-Baziur, Ewa Deptuchowa, Joanna Duska, Mariusz Frodyma, Beata Hejmo, Dorota Janeczko, Katarzyna Jasińska, Krystyna Kajtoch, Joanna Kozioł, Marian Kucała, Dorota Mika, Gabriela Niemiec, Urszula Poprawska, Elżbieta Supranowicz, Ludwika Szelachowska-Winiarzowa, Zofia Wanicowa, Piotr Szpor, Bartłomiej Borek, editors (2011–2015), “sto”, in Słownik pojęciowy języka staropolskiego [Conceptual Dictionary of Old Polish] (in Polish), Kraków: IJP PAN, →ISBN
According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), sto is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 50 times in scientific texts, 164 times in news, 67 times in essays, 18 times in fiction, and 31 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 330 times, making it the 154th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.[1]
References
^ Ida Kurcz (1990) “sto”, in Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej [Frequency dictionary of the Polish language] (in Polish), volume 2, Kraków, Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page 561
Further reading
sto in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
Maria Renata Mayenowa, Stanisław Rospond, Witold Taszycki, Stefan Hrabec, Władysław Kuraszkiewicz (2010-2023) “sto”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish]
“STO”, in Elektroniczny Słownik Języka Polskiego XVII i XVIII Wieku [Electronic Dictionary of the Polish Language of the XVII and XVIII Century], 2019 April 2
“sto”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2003–2024