Crimean Gothic

Numeral

stega

1. twenty
   • 1562, Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq:

     Viginti dicebat stega, triginta treithyen, quadraginta furdeithien, centum sada, hazer mille.

Latin

Etymology

Borrowing from Ancient Greek στέγη ‎(stégē)

Noun

stega f ‎(genitive stegae); first declension

1. (nautical) The deck of a ship

Inflection

First declension.

References

• stega in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “stega”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.

Swedish

Etymology

steg +‎ -a, used at least since 1655.

Verb

stega ‎(present stegar, preterite stegade, supine stegat, imperative stega)

1. to pace, to measure the length by counting steps of a known length, e.g. one metre
2. to step, to walk, to pace (with indivial steps)

   Eleven stegade tvekande fram till svarta tavlan.

   The pupil hesitantly stepped up to the blackboard.

3. to step (an electric stepper relay or stepper motor)

Conjugation

Related terms

• stegmotor
• stegning
• stegrelä
• stegräknare
• uppstegad

References

• stega in Svenska Akademiens Ordlista över svenska språket (13th ed., online)
• stega in Svenska Akademiens ordbok online.