Ancient Greek

Noun

στᾰ́σῐς • ‎(stásis) f ‎(genitive στᾰ́σεως or στᾰ́σῐος); third declension

1. a standing, placing, setting
   1. standing stone, pillar
   2. erection (of a building), building
   3. weighing
   4. (figuratively) standing, stature
   5. position, posture, station
      1. stable, stall
      2. compass positio
      3. posture of a boxer
         1. (figuratively) position of a litigant
      4. position or opinion of a philosopher
   6. state, condition
2. party, company, band
3. party formed for sedition, faction
   1. sedition, discord
   2. division, dissent
4. statute, decree

Inflection

Derived terms

Descendants

• English: stasis
• German: Stasis
• Greek: στάση ‎(stási)

References

• στάσις in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• «στάσις» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• “G4714”, 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.
  • attitude idem, page 51.
  • bickering idem, page 78.
  • brawl idem, page 94.
  • cabal idem, page 107.
  • clique idem, page 138.
  • disagreement idem, page 227.
  • discord idem, page 230.
  • dissension idem, page 239.
  • distraction idem, page 242.
  • disunion idem, page 243.
  • division idem, page 244.
  • faction idem, page 300.
  • factiousness idem, page 301.
  • feud idem, page 317.
  • fixity idem, page 325.
  • footing idem, page 334.
  • insurrection idem, page 448.
  • internal idem, page 452.
  • intestine idem, page 453.
  • league idem, page 482.
  • mutiny idem, page 548.
  • outbreak idem, page 581.
  • partisanship idem, page 594.
  • party idem, page 595.
  • party spirit idem, page 595.
  • pose idem, page 627.
  • position idem, page 628.
  • posture idem, page 629.
  • propaganda idem, page 653.
  • quarrel idem, page 663.
  • rebellion idem, page 677.
  • rebelliousness idem, page 677.
  • repose idem, page 697.
  • rest idem, page 704.
  • revolution idem, page 711.
  • riot idem, page 716.
  • schism idem, page 739.
  • sect idem, page 747.
  • sedition idem, page 748.
  • seditiousness idem, page 748.
  • set idem, page 756.
  • side idem, page 772.
  • split idem, page 803.
  • stall idem, page 809.
  • stand idem, page 810.
  • station idem, page 813.
  • stir idem, page 818.
  • strife idem, page 825.
  • tumult idem, page 900.
  • turbulence idem, page 901.
  • unrest idem, page 930.
  • variance idem, page 944.