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===Etymology 1===
===Etymology 1===
From {{der|en|grc|στήλη||upright rock; pillar; column}}, plural form {{m|grc|σしぐまτたうῆλらむだαあるふぁιいおた}}. {{doublet|en|stela}}.
From {{uder|en|grc|στήλη||upright rock; pillar; column}}, plural form {{m|grc|σしぐまτたうῆλらむだαあるふぁιいおた}}. {{doublet|en|stela}}.
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Revision as of 21:36, 30 November 2022

See also: Stele, stélé, stèle, stelè, and ŝtele

English

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The funerary stele (gravestone) of Pollis (circa 480 BC), a Megaran hoplite.

Etymology 1

From Ancient Greek στήλη (stḗlē, “upright rock; pillar; column”), plural form σしぐまτたうῆλらむだαあるふぁιいおた (stêlai). Doublet of stela.

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Alternative forms

Pronunciation

  • Lua error in Module:parameters at line 290: Parameter 1 should be a valid language or etymology language code; the value "modern" is not valid. See WT:LOL and WT:LOL/E. IPA(key): /ˈstiːli/; (formerly also) IPA(key): /stiːl/[1]
  • Rhymes: -iːli
  • Homophone: steely
  • Audio /ˈstiːli/ (US):(file)

Noun

stele (plural steles or stelai)

  1. (archaeology) An upright (or formerly upright) slab containing engraved or painted decorations or inscriptions; a stela.
    • 1820, T. S. Hughes, Trav. Sicily, I x 303:
      A superior class of members...had their names inscribed upon a marble stélé or column.
    • 1825, T. D. Fosbroke, Encycl. Antiq., I v 70:
      It appears, that when any one of the family died, a stelè to his memory was added to the tomb.
    • 1847, J. Leitch translating C. O. Müller, Anc. Art, §224 193:
      In Egypt [obelisks] belonged to the class of steles (commemorative pillars).
    • 1884, A. Lang, Custom & Myth, 285:
      The Australian stele, or grave-pillar.
  2. (archaeology, uncommon) Any carved or engraved surface.
    • 1877, A. B. Edwards, Thousand Miles up Nile, VI 143:
      Two large hieroglyphed steles incised upon the face of a projecting mass of boldly rounded cliff.
  3. (architecture, archaeology, obsolete) An acroterion, the decoration on the ridge of an ancient Greek building such as a temple.
    • c. 1840 Hosking, "Architecture" in Encyclopædia Britannica, III 470:
      Stele. The ornaments on the ridge of a Greek temple, answering to the antefixæ on the summit of the flank entablatures, are thus designated.
Usage notes
  • Although stela and stele were used in antiquity for pillars and columns generally, and continued to carry that meaning when their use was revived in English archaeology and architecture in the 18th and 19th century, respectively, present usage usually distinguishes obelisks, columns, shafts (the body of a column between the capital and the pediment), etc., from stela and stele, which are used to refer to engraved slabs or small pillars.
  • Furthermore, although the terms still refer to small pillarlike gravestones from antiquity, the similar-looking herms are now often distinguished, as are modern gravestones, monuments, boundary markers, etc.
  • The terms do sometimes refer to undecorated rocks when they have been raised by artificial means in prehistoric times, particularly when they are slab-like, but the large Neolithic menhirs are usually distinguished as are Chinese scholar's rocks or Taihu rocks, and other modern uses of upright stones as decoration or signage.
  • Stele is frequently pluralized irregularly as stelae, which is also used as a plural form of the more Latinized singular form stela. The anglicized Greek plural stelai has been used since the late 19th century but is less common than steles.
Synonyms
Derived terms

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Translations

Etymology 2

From 1886 French stèle, from Ancient Greek στήλη (stḗlē, “upright rock; pillar; column”).

Noun

stele (plural steles)

  1. (botany) The central core of a plant's root and stem system, especially including the vascular tissue and developed from the plerome.
    • 1895, Sydney Howard Vines, A Students' Text-book of Botany, 179:
      The stele may have—in different structures—one to many protoxylem (primitive wood) groups, and is accordingly described as monarch...diarch...triarch...tetrarch...polyarch.
    • 1898, Hobart Charles Porter translating Eduard Strasburger & al. A Text-book of Botany, 109:
      The so-called central cylinder, for which Van Tieghem has proposed the name stele (column).
Translations

References

  1. ^ Oxford English Dictionary. "Stele".

Anagrams

Dutch

Pronunciation

Verb

stele

  1. (deprecated template usage) (archaic) singular present subjunctive of stelen

Anagrams

Friulian

Etymology

From Latin stēlla.

Noun

stele f (plural stelis)

  1. star

Indonesian

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Etymology

From English stele, from 1886 French stèle, from Ancient Greek στήλη (stḗlē, “upright rock; pillar; column”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈstele]
  • Hyphenation: sté‧lé

Noun

stele or stélé

  1. (botany) stele, the central core of a plant's root and stem system, especially including the vascular tissue and developed from the plerome.

Further reading

Istro-Romanian

Noun

stele f (plural form of ste)

  1. stars

Italian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈstɛ.le/
  • Rhymes: -ɛle
  • Hyphenation: stè‧le

Noun

stele f (invariable)

  1. stele (all senses)

See also

Anagrams

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old English stēle, stȳle, stīele, from Proto-West Germanic *stahlī (“steel weapon”).

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

Noun

stele (plural steles)

  1. steel
Descendants
  • English: steel
  • Scots: stele, steill
  • Yola: stheel

References

Etymology 2

Inherited from Old English stela, steola; a parallel etymology to English stale (“a handle, shaft, stem”, noun).

Noun

stele (plural steles or stelen)

  1. A stem or trunk of a plant.
  2. A ladder's side or half.
    • c. 1225, “Seſte dale: penitence”, in Ancrene Ƿiſſe (MS. Corpus Christi 402)‎[1], Herefordshire, published c. 1235, folio 96, recto; republished at Cambridge: Parker Library on the Web, 2018 January:
      ſcheome ⁊ pine · aſ ſein Beornard ſeið beoð þe tƿa leaddꝛe steolen þe beoð up rriht to heouene […]
      As Saint Bernard says, shame and penury are the two sides of the ladder that go right up to heaven.
  3. A handle or shaft.

Etymology 3

Verb

stele

  1. Alternative form of stelen

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology 1

From Ancient Greek στήλη (stḗlē, “pillar”).

Noun

stele m (definite singular stelen, indefinite plural steler, definite plural stelene)

  1. (archaeology) A tall, slender stone monument, often with writing carved into its surface

Etymology 2

From Old Norse stela, from Proto-Germanic *stelaną.

Verb

stele (present tense steler, past tense stal, supine stålet)

  1. form removed with the spelling reform of 2005; superseded by stjele

References

Anagrams

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology 1

From Ancient Greek στήλη (stḗlē, “pillar”).

Noun

stele m (definite singular stelen, indefinite plural stelar, definite plural stelane)

  1. (archaeology) tall, slender stone monument, often with writing carved into its surface

Etymology 2

Verb

stele (present tense stel, past tense stal, past participle stole, passive infinitive stelast, present participle stelande, imperative stel)

  1. Alternative form of stela

References

Romanian

Pronunciation

Noun

stele f pl

  1. plural of stea

Swedish

Adjective

stele

  1. (deprecated template usage) definite natural masculine singular of stel

References

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