Alternative forms

• στοιᾱ́ (stoiā́), στωῐ̈ᾱ́ (stōĭ̈ā́), στοιή (stoiḗ), στῳᾱ́ (stōiā́)

Etymology

From Proto-HellenicCategory:Ancient Greek terms inherited from Proto-Hellenic#ΣΤΟΑCategory:Ancient Greek terms derived from Proto-Hellenic#ΣΤΟΑ *stōyyā́, from Proto-Indo-EuropeanCategory:Ancient Greek terms derived from Proto-Indo-European#ΣΤΟΑ *stoh₂-w-ih₂, ultimately from the root *steh₂- (“to stand”), whence also στῦλος (stûlos, “column, pillar”). Cognates include Old English stōwian, stōw (English stow), Sanskrit स्थावर (sthāvará)Category:Sanskrit terms with non-redundant manual transliterations#ΣΤΟΑ, Persian ستاوند (sotâvand), Central Kurdish ئه‌ستونده (estunde), Lithuanian stovéti, stovà, Old Church Slavonic ставити (staviti). Compare ἵστημι (hístēmi, “to stand”).

Pronunciation

Noun

στοᾱ́ • (stoā́) f (genitive στοᾶς)Category:Ancient Greek lemmas#ΣΤΟΑCategory:Ancient Greek nouns#ΣΤΟΑCategory:Ancient Greek oxytone terms#ΣΤΟΑCategory:Ancient Greek feminine nouns#ΣΤΟΑCategory:Ancient Greek first-declension nouns#ΣΤΟΑCategory:Ancient Greek feminine nouns in the first declension#ΣΤΟΑCategory:Ancient Greek entries with incorrect language header#ΣΤΟΑCategory:Ancient Greek feminine nouns#ΣΤΟΑCategory:Pages with entries#ΣΤΟΑCategory:Pages with 1 entry#ΣΤΟΑ; first declension

1. a colonnade
2. a roofed porch or walkway having one or more aisles framed and supported by one or more colonnades: portico; arcade, cloister, piazza (e.g. the Stoa Basileios and the Stoa Poikile in the ancient Agora of Athens).
3. a building marked by having such a roofed and colonnaded porch or walkway (e.g. the Stoa of Attalos in the ancient Agora of Athens).
4. royal court

References

• “στοά”, in Liddell & Scott (1940), A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• στοά in Bailly, Anatole (1935), Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Bauer, Walter et al. (2001), A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
• G4745 in Strong, James (1979), Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910), English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • cloister idem, page 138.
  • colonnade idem, page 143.
  • porch idem, page 627.
  • portico idem, page 627.
  • terrace idem, page 863.