στίχος

From στείχω (steíkhō, “walk, march, go or come, march in line or order”), from Proto-Indo-European *steygʰ- (“to walk”).

Cognate with German steigen, English sty, stair, stile and possibly Latin vestīgō. See also στοῖχος (stoîkhos, “row in an ascending series, column”), στόχος (stókhos, “pillar of brick”), and στίξ (stíx, “row, line, rank, file (of soldiers)”).

στῐ́χος • (stíkhos) m (genitive στῐ́χου); second declension

1. a row or file of soldiers
2. a line of poetry, a verse

• στοῖχος (stoîkhos)

• Greek: στίχος (stíchos)
• → Latin: stichus
• → Russian: стих (stix)
• → Old Georgian: სტიქონი (sṭikoni), სტრიქონი (sṭrikoni)

• “στίχος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• στίχος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • line idem, page 492.
  • row idem, page 723.
  • series idem, page 754.
  • verse idem, page 948.

From Ancient Greek στίχος (stíkhos).

στίχος • (stíchos) m (plural στίχοι)

1. a line of text, usually verse
2. verse, poetry
3. (in the plural) lyrics

• στροφή f (strofí, “stanza”)
• ποίημα n (poíima, “poem”)
• ποίηση f (poíisi, “poetry”)

• στίχος on the Greek Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^el