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stega

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Pronunciation

  • Classical: [ˈstɛ.ɡa][1]
  • Ecclesiastical: [ˈstɛː.ɡa][1]

Forms

stega f (genitive stegae); first declension[1]

Etymology

It is borrowed from Ancient Greek στέγη (stégē, “roof, covering”).[2][3][4][1] Köbler takes the Greek word to Proto-Indo-European *steg- (“to cover”).[5][6]

Earliest recorded meaning

It is found only in Plautus, in the Bacchides and the Stichus, meaning the deck of a ship.[2][3][7][5]

Timeline

  • c. 250–184 BC – Plautus uses it for the deck of a ship.[2][5]

Meanings

Noun

  1. (nautical) The deck of a ship.[2][3][8]

Usage notes

Medieval Latin has a separate stega or stiga, an alley or path, from Germanic.[9][5]

References

  1. ^ a b c d Wiktionary, the free dictionary, https://en.wiktionary.org
  2. ^ a b c d Glare, P. G. W., ed. (2012), Oxford Latin Dictionary, 2nd ed., Oxford: Oxford University Press
  3. ^ a b c Lewis, Charlton T.; Short, Charles (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  4. ^ Saalfeld, Günther Alexander (1874), Index Graecorum vocabulorum in linguam latinam translatorum, Berlin: Weidmann
  5. ^ a b c d Köbler, Gerhard (2010), Lateinisches Abkunfts- und Wirkungswörterbuch für Altertum und Mittelalter, online ed., koeblergerhard.de
  6. ^ Pokorny, Julius (1959), Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch, Bern; Munich: Francke
  7. ^ Georges, Karl Ernst (1913–1918), Ausführliches lateinisch-deutsches Handwörterbuch, 8th ed., ed. Heinrich Georges, Hannover; Leipzig: Hahn
  8. ^ Gaffiot, Félix (2016), Dictionnaire latin-français, new ed. by Gérard Gréco et al. (Gaffiot 2016), online ed.
  9. ^ Niermeyer, J. F. (1976), Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden: Brill