στέαρ: Difference between revisions

|Definition=τό, gen. [[στέατος]] [v. sub fin.]; contr. στῆρ, <span class="bibl"><span class="title">PCair.Zen.</span>703.2</span>,<span class="bibl">6</span> (iii B.C.), Archig. ap. Gal.12.861, Thd.<span class="title">Bel.</span> 27, gen. <span class="sense"><span class="bld">A</span> στῆτος <span class="bibl"><span class="title">PCair.Zen.</span>176.183</span> (iii B.C.); also στεῖαρ, gen. στείατος <span class="bibl">Choerob.<span class="title">in Theod.</span> 1.350</span> H.:—[[hard fat]], [[suet]], such as ruminating animals have, opp. [[πιμελή]] (soft fat), <b class="b3">ἐκ δὲ στέατος ἔνεικε μέγαν τροχόν</b> a large cake of [[suet]], <span class="bibl">Od.21.178</span>; οὔτε πιμελὴν οὔτε στέαρ <span class="bibl">Arist.<span class="title">PA</span>651a26</span>; τὸ τῶν ἰχθύων σ. πιμελῶδες <span class="bibl">Id.<span class="title">HA</span>520a21</span>, al. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">2</span> any [[animal fat]], σ. τῆς ἄρκτου <span class="bibl">Thphr.<span class="title">Od.</span>63</span>; σ. δελφίνων <span class="bibl">X.<span class="title">An.</span>5.4.28</span>; freq. in [[LXX]] (<span class="bibl"><span class="title">Le.</span>3.15</span>,<span class="bibl">16</span>,<span class="bibl">17</span>, al.); also <span class="bibl"><span class="title">PRev.Laws</span> 50.14</span> (iii B.C.), <span class="title">PCair.Zen.</span> Il.cc.; so <b class="b3">σ. χήνειον, ὀρνίθειον</b>, etc., Dsc.2.76. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">II</span> = [[σταῖς]] ([[quod vide|q.v.]]), [[dough made from flour of spelt]], <span class="bibl">Hp.<span class="title">Nat.Mul.</span>27</span> (but [[σταῖς]] is prob. l.), <span class="bibl">Arist.<span class="title">Pr.</span>879a10</span>, <span class="bibl">Thphr.<span class="title">HP</span>9.20.2</span>, <span class="bibl">LXX <span class="title">Ps.</span>80(81).17</span>, al., <span class="bibl">Str.17.2.5</span> (citing <span class="bibl">Hdt.2.36</span>, where [[σταῖς]] is in our text). [Gen. [[στέατος]] disyll., Od. [[l.c.]]; [[στέᾱτι]] trisyll., <span class="bibl">Diph.119</span>; cf. [[στεάτιον]].] (Prob. fr. <b class="b3">*στᾱ</b>[[y]]αρ, cf. Skt. [[styāyate]] 'congeal, grow hard'.)</span>