στανύω

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Uncertain. Perhaps ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *steh₂-. Rix suggests that it could derive from Proto-Indo-European *stnéh₂ti, the nasal-infix present of the root *steh₂-. Related to Ancient Greek ῐ̔́στημῐ (hĭ́stēmĭ).

Verb

στανύω • (stanúō) (Cretan)

  1. to appoint, establish
    • c. 2nd century BCE, inscription at Hierapytna, published in Inscriptiones Creticae III.iii.4:
      ὑπὲρ δὲ τῶν ὕστερον ἐγγινομένων ἀδικημάτων προ-
      δίκωι μὲν χρήσθων καθὼς τὸ διάγραμμα ἔχει· περὶ δὲ τῶ
      δικαστηρίω οἱ ἐπιστάμενοι κατ’ ἐνιαυτὸν παρ’ ἑκατέροις
      κόσμοι πόλιν στανυέσθων ἅγ κα ἀμφοτέραις ταῖς πόλεσ[ι]
      [δό]ξηι ἐξ ἇς τὸ ἐπικριτήριον τέλεται, καὶ ἐγγύος καθιστάν-
      των ἀφ’ ἇς κα ἁμέρας ἐπιστᾶντι ἐπὶ τὸ ἀρχεῖον ἐν διμήνωι,
      καὶ διεξαγόντων ταῦτα ἐπ’ αὐτῶν κοσμόντων κατὰ τὸ
      δοχθὲν κοινᾶι σύμβολον.
      hupèr dè tôn hústeron enginoménōn adikēmátōn pro-
      díkōi mèn khrḗsthōn kathṑs tò diágramma ékhei; perì dè tô
      dikastēríō hoi epistámenoi kat’ eniautòn par’ hekatérois
      kósmoi pólin stanuésthōn hág ka amphotérais taîs póles[i]
      [dó]xēi ex hâs tò epikritḗrion téletai, kaì engúos kathistán-
      tōn aph’ hâs ka haméras epistânti epì tò arkheîon en dimḗnōi,
      kaì diexagóntōn taûta ep’ autôn kosmóntōn katà tò
      dokhthèn koinâi súmbolon.
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Conjugation

References

  • στανύω”, in Liddell & Scott (1940), A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • στανύω, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011
  • Rix, Helmut, editor (2001), Lexikon der indogermanischen Verben [Lexicon of Indo-European Verbs] (in German), 2nd edition, Wiesbaden: Dr. Ludwig Reichert Verlag, →ISBN, page 590
  • 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, page 601
  • Ronald I. Kim, Jana Mynářová, Peter Pavúk, editor (16 December 2019), Hrozný and Hittite: The First Hundred Years[1], Brill, →ISBN, page 321
  • Michael Maittaire; Friedrich Wilhelm Sturz; John Seager (1831), Maittaire's Greek dialects, abridged and translated into English, from the edition of Sturzius[2], London, Longman and Co, page 165