Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• στοιά ‎(stoiá)
• στωϊά ‎(stōïá)

Noun

στοά • ‎(stoá) f ‎(genitive στοᾶς); first declension

1. roofed enclosure supported by pillars, portico, colonnade, piazza, arcade, cloister
2. various buildings supported by pillars, stoa
3. royal court

Inflection

Derived terms

• στωϊκός ‎(stōïkós)/ Στωϊκός ‎(Stōïkós)

Descendants

• English: stoa

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’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979
• 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.