στέργω

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Ancient Greek

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *sterg- (literally to cover, to protect). Possibly related to Proto-Slavic *sterťi (to guard) and Welsh serch (love, affection).[1]

Pronunciation

 

Verb

στέργω (stérgō) (chiefly Attic, Doric, Koine)[2]

  1. to love (mostly of non-sexual affection)
  2. to show affection
  3. to be content, to acquiesce

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References

  1. ^ 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, page 1400
  2. ^ στέργω”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press