stoa

English

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stoa

Wikipedia

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek στοά (stoá).

Noun

stoa (plural stoae or stoæ or stoai or stoas)

1. In Ancient Greece, a walkway with a roof supported by colonnades, often with a wall on one side; specifically, the Great Hall in Athens.
   • 1990, Camille Paglia, Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson:

     They could not vote, attend the theater, or walk in the stoa talking philosophy.

Synonyms

• See Thesaurus:porch

Related terms

• stoic

Translations

Anagrams

• OTAs, SOTA, Sato, Sota, Taos, Tsao, as to, oast, oats, taos, toas, tosa

Finnish

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek στοά (stoá).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈstoɑ/,
• Rhymes: -oɑ
• Syllabification^(key): sto‧a

Noun

stoa

1. (architecture) stoa

Declension

Anagrams

• Atso, osat, osta, otsa, sato, sota, taos, taso, tosa

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek στοά (stoá).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈstɔ.a/
• Rhymes: -ɔa
• Hyphenation: stò‧a

Noun

stoa f (plural stoe)

1. (Ancient Greece) stoa

Related terms

Further reading

• stoa in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Anagrams

• Atos, Taso, osta, tosa

Lote

Noun

stoa

1. store

References

• Greg Pearson, René van den Berg, Lote Grammar Sketch (2008)

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

stoa m (definite singular stoaen, indefinite plural stoaer, definite plural stoaene)

1. a stoa

Norwegian Nynorsk

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈstuː.ɑ/

Etymology 1

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek στοά (stoá).

Noun

stoa m (definite singular stoaen, indefinite plural stoaer or stoaar, definite plural stoaene or stoaane)

1. a stoa

Related terms

• stoikar
• stoisisme
• stoisk

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Noun

stoa

1. definite singular of sto f
2. definite plural of sto n

Anagrams

• osta, sota, tosa