στέαρ

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Transliteration A: stéar Transliteration B: stear Transliteration C: stear Beta Code: ste/ar

English (LSJ)

τό, gen. στέατος [v. sub fin.]; contr. στῆρ, PCair.Zen.703.2,6 (iii B.C.), Archig. ap. Gal.12.861, Thd.Bel. 27, gen.

   A στῆτος PCair.Zen.176.183 (iii B.C.); also στεῖαρ, gen. στείατος Choerob.in Theod. 1.350 H.:—hard fat, suet, such as ruminating animals have, opp. πιμελή (soft fat), ἐκ δὲ στέατος ἔνεικε μέγαν τροχόν a large cake of suet, Od.21.178; οὔτε πιμελὴν οὔτε στέαρ Arist.PA651a26; τὸ τῶν ἰχθύων σ. πιμελῶδες Id.HA520a21, al.    2 any animal fat, σ. τῆς ἄρκτου Thphr.Od.63; σ. δελφίνων X.An.5.4.28; freq. in LXX (Le.3.15,16,17, al.); also PRev.Laws 50.14 (iii B.C.), PCair.Zen. Il.cc.; so σ. χήνειον, ὀρνίθειον, etc., Dsc.2.76.    II = σταῖς (q.v.), dough made from flour of spelt, Hp.Nat.Mul.27 (but σταῖς is prob. l.), Arist.Pr.879a10, Thphr.HP9.20.2, LXX Ps.80(81).17, al., Str.17.2.5 (citing Hdt.2.36, where σταῖς is in our text). [Gen. στέατος disyll., Od. l.c.; στέᾱτι trisyll., Diph.119; cf. στεάτιον.] (Prob. fr. *στᾱyαρ, cf. Skt. styāyate 'congeal, grow hard'.)