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English
Adverb
sts. (not comparable)
- Abbreviation of sometimes.
- 1940, Henry George Liddell & Robert Scott & Henry Stuart Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon. Seventh Edition. Revised and augmented throughout by Sir Henry Stuart Jones with the assistance of Roderick McKenzie (LSJ), Oxford, Clarendon Press, New York:
- V. General List of Abbreviations sts. = sometimes
- σύ The pl. is sts. used in addressing one person
2001, Matthew S. DeMoss, “Pocket Dictionary for the Study of New Testament Greek”, in Abbreviations, Expressions & Sigla, InterVarsity Press, page 131 & 137:The following list provides some of the more common abbreviations [...] sts. sometimes
2003, LeaAnn A. Osburn, Horace Fully Parsed, page 127:To call upon, invoke a person or thing as witness: testatus sts. pass., as collat. testo, is sts. found.
- 2004, Arthur Anthony Macdonell, A Practical Sanskrit Dictionary (First Indian Edition), Delhi, p.202:
- the pl. is sts. used in token of greater respect
2014, B. H. McLean, Hellenistic and Biblical Greek, page 156:εἰ μή is sts. used with the sense of ἀλλά (cf. Gal 2:16).
Noun
sts.
- plural of st.
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