στήλη

• στᾱ́λᾱ (stā́lā) — Doric
• στᾱ́λλᾱ (stā́llā) — Aeolic
• στήλλη (stḗllē) — later Greek

Uncertain. Could be from Proto-Indo-European *stl̥-n-eh₂, from *stel- (related to στέλλω (stéllō, “I set, arrange”)), with similarities to Old High German stollo. Could instead be from Proto-Indo-European *sth₂-sleh₂, from *steh₂- (related to ἵστημι (hístēmi, “I stand”)). Also compare στῦλος (stûlos, “pillar”) and στάλιξ (stálix, “stake”).

στήλη • (stḗlē) f (genitive στήλης); first declension

1. block of stone used as a prop or buttress to a wall
2. block or slab used as a memorial, monument
3. gravestone, tombstone
4. monument inscribed with record of victories, dedications or votes of thanks
5. post placed on mortgage ground, as a record of the fact
6. boundary post
7. block of rock crystal, in which Ethiopian mummies were allegedly cased

• → English: stele (learned)
• → Greek: στήλη (stíli) (learned)
• → Latin: stēla
  • → English: stela
  • → Galician: estela (learned)
  • → Polish: stela
  • → Portuguese: estela (learned)

• “στήλη”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “στήλη”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “στήλη”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• στήλη in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• στήλη in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • block idem, page 84.
  • column idem, page 144.
  • gravestone idem, page 371.
  • memorial idem, page 524.
  • monument idem, page 539.
  • pillar idem, page 613.
  • post idem, page 629.
  • slab idem, page 782.
  • stone idem, page 819.
  • table idem, page 851.
  • tablet idem, page 851.
  • tomb-stone idem, page 880.
  • turning idem, page 902.
• Sihler, Andrew L. (1995) New Comparative Grammar of Greek and Latin, Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN
• 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

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek στήλη (stḗlē).

στήλη • (stíli) f (plural στήλες)

1. (architecture) column, stele
2. (chess) file

• κολώνα f (kolóna)