στηλο-γραφέω

στηλο-γρᾰφέω,

A inscribe on or as on a tablet, Ph.1.477, J.AJ16.6.2 ([voice] Pass.), OGI335.151 (Pergam., ii B.C., [voice] Pass.), Ἀρχ.Δελτ.2.145,147 (Beroea, iii A.D.).

Grammatical information: f.

Meaning: `column, among others peace-, treaty-column', from there `law, treaty'; also `buttress' (IA. since Il.).

Other forms: Dor. στάλα, Aeol. στάλλα.

Compounds: Rarely as 1. member, e.g. στηλο-γραφέω `to write on a column' (hell. a. late).

Derivatives: 1. Diminutives στηλ-ίον, - ίδιον, - ίς, - ῖδος, - ύδριον (hell. a. late). 2. - ίτης, f. - ῖτις `whose name is written on a column as a denouncement, publicly dishonoured' (Att.; Redard 114 f.) with - ιτεύω, - ίτευμα (late), also `column-shaped, belonging to columns' (Luc., AP). 3. - όω, - όομαι, also w. ἀνα-, κατα-, ἐν-, περι-, `to erect (a column), to designate by columns, to demarcate, to write on a column' with - ωσις, - ωμα (hell. a. late).

Origin: XX [etym. unknown]

Etymology: PGr. *στάλ-νᾱ (on the treatment of the group - λν- Schwyzer 283 f.); so to στέλλω (s.v.) with zero grade as in ἐπί-σταλ-μα a.o. (s. also στάλιξ). The same formation shows OHG OS stollo m. (n-st.) `scafold, upport, post', NHG Stollen, IE *stl̥-n-. Here also Phryg. starna with change l \> r (Haas Sprache 6, 14 a. 7, 80) ? -- Risch 102 considers as alternative a basic form *στα-σλᾱ (cf. Lat. scālae \< * scand-slae); to ἵστημι. -- Lyc. LW [loanword] sttala (Kretschmer Glotta 28, 103).

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