English

Adverb

sts. ‎(not comparable)

1. Abbreviation of sometimes.
   • 1940, Henry George Liddell & Robert Scott & Henry Stuart Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon. Seventh Edition. Revised and augmented throughout by Sir Henry Stuart Jones with the assistance of Roderick McKenzie (LSJ), Oxford, Clarendon Press, New York:

     V. General List of Abbreviations [...] sts. = sometimes

     σύ [...] The pl. is sts. used in addressing one person [...]

   • 2001, Matthew S. DeMoss, Pocket Dictionary for the Study of New Testament Greek, InterVarsity Press, p.131 & 137 (Abbreviations, Expressions & Sigla):

     The following list provides some of the more common abbreviations [...] sts. sometimes

   • 2003, LeaAnn A. Osburn, Horace Fully Parsed, page 127:

     To call upon, invoke a person or thing as witness: testatus sts. pass., as collat. testo, is sts. found.

   • 2004, Arthur Anthony Macdonell, A Practical Sanskrit Dictionary (First Indian Edition), Delhi, p.202:

     [...] the pl. is sts. used in token of greater respect [...]

   • 2014, B. H. McLean, Hellenistic and Biblical Greek, page 156:

     εἰ μή is sts. used with the sense of ἀλλά (cf. Gal 2:16).