different between stee vs stele
stee
English
Alternative forms
- stey
Etymology
Compare German Stiege. See stair.
Noun
stee (plural stees)
- (obsolete, Britain, dialect) A ladder.
Anagrams
- Sète, Tees, este, see't, tees
Middle English
Noun
stee
- Alternative form of stie (“ladder”)
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stele
English
Etymology 1
A parallel etymology to stale (“a handle, shaft, stem”, noun), distinguished via ablaut.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sti?l/
- Homophones: steal, steel
Noun
stele (plural steles)
- Obsolete form of stale (“handle, shaft, stem”).
- ...in o purpos stedefastly to dwelle
And nat biwreye thing that men us telle
...that tale is nat worth a rake-stele
L'ardee, we wommen conne no-thing hele [=hide]
- ...in o purpos stedefastly to dwelle
Etymology 2
From Ancient Greek ????? (st?l?, “upright rock; pillar; column”), plural form ?????? (stêlai).
Alternative forms
- stélé
- stelè
Pronunciation
- (modern) IPA(key): /?sti?li/; (formerly also) IPA(key): /sti?l/
- Rhymes: -i?li
- Homophone: steely
Noun
stele (plural steles or stelai)
- (archaeology) An upright (or formerly upright) slab containing engraved or painted decorations or inscriptions; a stela.
- 1820, T. S. Hughes, Trav. Sicily, I x 303:
- A superior class of members...had their names inscribed upon a marble stélé or column.
- 1825, T. D. Fosbroke, Encycl. Antiq., I v 70:
- It appears, that when any one of the family died, a stelè to his memory was added to the tomb.
- 1847, J. Leitch translating C. O. Müller, Anc. Art, §224 193:
- In Egypt [obelisks] belonged to the class of steles (commemorative pillars).
- 1884, A. Lang, Custom & Myth, 285:
- The Australian stele, or grave-pillar.
- 1820, T. S. Hughes, Trav. Sicily, I x 303:
- (archaeology, uncommon) Any carved or engraved surface.
- 1877, A. B. Edwards, Thousand Miles up Nile, VI 143:
- Two large hieroglyphed steles incised upon the face of a projecting mass of boldly rounded cliff.
- 1877, A. B. Edwards, Thousand Miles up Nile, VI 143:
- (architecture, archaeology, obsolete) An acroterion, the decoration on the ridge of an ancient Greek building such as a temple.
- c. 1840, Hosking, "Architecture" in Encyclopædia Britannica, III 470:
- Stele. The ornaments on the ridge of a Greek temple, answering to the antefixæ on the summit of the flank entablatures, are thus designated.
- c. 1840, Hosking, "Architecture" in Encyclopædia Britannica, III 470:
Usage notes
- Although stela and stele were used in antiquity for pillars and columns generally, and continued to carry that meaning when their use was revived in English archaeology and architecture in the 18th and 19th century, respectively, present usage usually distinguishes obelisks, columns, shafts (the body of a column between the capital and the pediment), etc., from stela and stele, which are used to refer to engraved slabs or small pillars.
- Furthermore, although the terms still refer to small pillarlike gravestones from antiquity, the similar-looking herms are now often distinguished, as are modern gravestones, monuments, boundary markers, etc.
- The terms do sometimes refer to undecorated rocks when they have been raised by artificial means in prehistoric times, particularly when they are slab-like, but the large Neolithic menhirs are usually distinguished as are Chinese scholar's rocks or Taihu rocks, and other modern uses of upright stones as decoration or signage.
- Stele is frequently pluralized irregularly as stelae, which is also used as a plural form of the more Latinized singular form stela. The anglicized Greek plural stelai has been used since the late 19th century but is less common than steles.
Synonyms
- stela
Derived terms
Translations
Etymology 3
From 1886 French stèle, from Ancient Greek ????? (st?l?, “upright rock; pillar; column”).
Noun
stele (plural steles)
- (botany) The central core of a plant's root and stem system, especially including the vascular tissue and developed from the plerome.
- 1895, Sydney Howard Vines, A Students' Text-book of Botany, 179:
- The stele may have—in different structures—one to many protoxylem (primitive wood) groups, and is accordingly described as monarch...diarch...triarch...tetrarch...polyarch.
- 1898, Hobart Charles Porter translating Eduard Strasburger & al. A Text-book of Botany, 109:
- The so-called central cylinder, for which Van Tieghem has proposed the name stele (column).
- 1895, Sydney Howard Vines, A Students' Text-book of Botany, 179:
Translations
Anagrams
- Leets, Steel, Teels, Teles, leets, sleet, steel, teles
Dutch
Pronunciation
Verb
stele
- (archaic) singular present subjunctive of stelen
Anagrams
- leest, sleet, slete, steel
Friulian
Etymology
From Latin st?lla.
Noun
stele f (plural stelis)
- star
Indonesian
Etymology
From English stele, from 1886 French stèle, from Ancient Greek ????? (st?l?, “upright rock; pillar; column”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [?stele]
- Hyphenation: sté?lé
Noun
stele or stélé
- (botany) stele, the central core of a plant's root and stem system, especially including the vascular tissue and developed from the plerome.
Further reading
- “stele” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.
Istro-Romanian
Noun
stele f (plural form of ste)
- stars
Italian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?st?.le/
- Rhymes: -?le
- Hyphenation: stè?le
Noun
stele f (invariable)
- stele (all senses)
See also
- pilastro
- erma
- pilastrino
- cippo
- busto
Anagrams
- leste
Middle English
Alternative forms
- stel, stelle, steyle, stiele, steole, style
Etymology
From Old English st?le, st?le, st?ele, from Proto-West Germanic *stahl? (“steel weapon”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?ste?l(?)/, /?st?l(?)/
Noun
stele (plural steles)
- steel
Descendants
- English: steel
- Scots: stele, steill
- Yola: stheel
References
- “st???l(e, n.(3).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology 1
From Ancient Greek ????? (st?l?, “pillar”).
Noun
stele m (definite singular stelen, indefinite plural steler, definite plural stelene)
- (archaeology) A tall, slender stone monument, often with writing carved into its surface
Etymology 2
From Old Norse stela, from Proto-Germanic *stelan?.
Verb
stele (present tense steler, past tense stal, supine stålet)
- form removed with the spelling reform of 2005; superseded by stjele
References
- “stele” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology 1
From Ancient Greek ????? (st?l?, “pillar”).
Noun
stele m (definite singular stelen, indefinite plural stelar, definite plural stelane)
- (archaeology) tall, slender stone monument, often with writing carved into its surface
Etymology 2
Verb
stele (present tense stel, past tense stal, past participle stole, passive infinitive stelast, present participle stelande, imperative stel)
- Alternative form of stela
References
- “stele” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Romanian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [?stele]
Noun
stele f pl
- plural of stea
Swedish
Adjective
stele
- absolute definite natural masculine form of stel.
References
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