- στῦλος
- στῦλοςGrammatical information: m.Meaning: `column, pillar, support' (Dor. Ion., trag., hell. a. late), also = Lat. stilus (late; cf. Sempoux Rev. belge de phil. 39, 736ff.).Compounds: Compp., e.g. στυλο-βάτης, Dor. -τᾱς m. `foot of a doric column', compound of στῦλος and βῆ-ναι with τᾱ-suffix (Dor. inscr., Pl. Com. a.o.; Fraenkel Nom. ag. 1, 34 a. 200f.), τετρά-στυλος `consisting of four columns', -ον n. `colonnade of four columns' (inscr. a. pap. Rom. empire a.o.).Derivatives: 1. Dimin.: στυλ-ίς f. (Att. inscr. a.o.), -ίσκος m. (Hp., hell. a. late), -ίδιον n. (Str.), -άριον n. (pap. IIIp). 2. -ίτης m. `standing on one column, stylite' (Suid.; Redard 27), f. -ίτισσα (Amasia; after Φοίνισσα, βασίλισσα a.o.). 3. Denom. verbs: -όω (also ὑπο-, δια-, ἀπο-) `to support with columns' (hell. a. late) with (ὑπο-)στύλ-ωμα, -ωσις (hell. a. late); -ίζω meaning uncertain (Ostr.) with ὑποστυλ-ισμός `support' (pap. IIp).Origin: PG [a word of Pre-Greek origin]X [probably]Etymology: Beside στῦ-λος stands in Indoiran. Av. stū̆-na- m., stu-nā f., Skt. sthū-ṇā f. (on ṇ Mayrhofer Mél. d'indianisme [Paris 1968] 509 f.) `pillar' with suffixal l-n-variation (Benveniste Origines 43); the basic verb is in Greek represented by στύω (s. v.). Here also with diff. ablaut σταυρός and στοά (s. vv.). Cf. further στύπος. -- The length of the vowel is rather difficult with the proposed etymology; I rather suspect that the word is of Pre-Greek originPage in Frisk: 2,813
Greek-English etymological dictionary (Ελληνικά-Αγγλικά ετυμολογική λεξικό). Robert S.P.. 2010.