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|etymtx=Grammatical information: m.<br />Meaning: [[column]], [[pillar]], [[support]] (Dor. Ion., trag., hell. a. late), also = Lat. [[stilus]] (late; cf. Sempoux Rev. belge de phil. 39, 736ff.).<br />Compounds: Compp., e.g. <b class="b3">στυλο-βάτης</b>, Dor. <b class="b3">-τας</b> m. [[foot of a doric column]], compound of [[στῦλος]] and <b class="b3">βῆ-ναι</b> with <b class="b3">τα-</b>suffix (Dor. inscr., Pl. Com. a.o.; Fraenkel Nom. ag. 1, 34 a. 200f.), <b class="b3">τετρά-στυλος</b> [[consisting of four columns]], <b class="b3">-ον</b> n. [[colonnade of four columns]] (inscr. a. pap. Rom. empire a.o.).<br />Derivatives: 1. Dimin.: <b class="b3">στυλ-ίς</b> f. (Att. inscr. a.o.), <b class="b3">-ίσκος</b> m. (Hp., hell. a. late), <b class="b3">-ίδιον</b> n. (Str.), <b class="b3">-άριον</b> n. (pap. IIIp). 2. <b class="b3">-ίτης</b> m. [[standing on one column]], [[stylite]] (Suid.; Redard 27), f. <b class="b3">-ίτισσα</b> (Amasia; after [[Φοίνισσα]], [[βασίλισσα]] a.o.). 3. Denom. verbs: <b class="b3">-όω</b> (also <b class="b3">ὑπο-</b>, <b class="b3">δια-</b>, <b class="b3">ἀπο-</b>) [[to support with columns]] (hell. a. late) with (<b class="b3">ὑπο-)στύλ-ωμα</b>, <b class="b3">-ωσις</b> (hell. a. late); <b class="b3">-ίζω</b> meaning uncertain (Ostr.) with <b class="b3">ὑποστυλ-ισμός</b> [[support]] (pap. IIp).<br />Origin: PG [a word of Pre-Greek origin]X [probably]<br />Etymology: Beside <b class="b3">στῦ-λος</b> stands in Indoiran. Av. <b class="b2">stū-na-</b> m., <b class="b2">stu-nā</b> f., Skt. <b class="b2">sthū-ṇā</b> f. (on <b class="b2">ṇ</b> Mayrhofer Mél. d'indianisme [Paris 1968] 509 f.) [[pillar]] with suffixal <b class="b2">l-n-</b>variation (Benveniste Origines 43); the basic verb is in Greek represented by [[στύω]] (s. v.). Here also with diff. ablaut [[σταυρός]] and [[στοά]] (s. vv.). Cf. further [[στύπος]]. -- The length of the vowel is rather difficult with the proposed etymology; I rather suspect that the word is of Pre-Greek origin