stele

Etymology 1
From, plural form. .

Pronunciation

 * ; (formerly also)

Noun

 * 1)  An upright (or formerly upright) slab containing engraved or painted decorations or inscriptions; a stela.
 * 2)  Any carved or engraved surface.
 * 3)  An acroterion, the decoration on the ridge of an ancient Greek building such as a temple.
 * 4) * c. 1840, Hosking, "Architecture" in Encyclopædia Britannica, III 470:
 * Stele. The ornaments on the ridge of a Greek temple, answering to the antefixæ on the summit of the flank entablatures, are thus designated.
 * 1)  Any carved or engraved surface.
 * 2)  An acroterion, the decoration on the ridge of an ancient Greek building such as a temple.
 * 3) * c. 1840, Hosking, "Architecture" in Encyclopædia Britannica, III 470:
 * Stele. The ornaments on the ridge of a Greek temple, answering to the antefixæ on the summit of the flank entablatures, are thus designated.
 * Stele. The ornaments on the ridge of a Greek temple, answering to the antefixæ on the summit of the flank entablatures, are thus designated.

Usage notes

 * Although and  were used in antiquity for pillars and columns generally, and continued to carry that meaning when their use was revived in English archaeology and architecture in the 18th and 19th century, respectively, present usage usually distinguishes obelisks, columns, shafts (the body of a column between the capital and the pediment), etc., from  and, which are used to refer to engraved slabs or small pillars.
 * Furthermore, although the terms still refer to small pillarlike gravestones from antiquity, the similar-looking herms are now often distinguished, as are modern gravestones, monuments, boundary markers, etc.
 * The terms do sometimes refer to undecorated rocks when they have been raised by artificial means in prehistoric times, particularly when they are slab-like, but the large Neolithic menhirs are usually distinguished as are Chinese scholar's rocks or Taihu rocks, and other modern uses of upright stones as decoration or signage.
 * is frequently pluralized irregularly as, which is also used as a plural form of the more Latinized singular form . The anglicized Greek plural has been used since the late 19th century but is less common than.

Translations

 * Arabic: لَوْحَة تِذْكَارِيَّة
 * Armenian:
 * Basque:
 * Belarusian: стэла
 * Breton: maen-koun
 * Bulgarian: стела
 * Burmese:
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 石碑,
 * Eastern Min: 碑
 * Hakka: 石碑, 碑
 * Hokkien: 石碑, 碑
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Northern Min: 碑
 * Czech:
 * Danish: stele
 * Dutch:
 * Egyptian:
 * Esperanto: steleo
 * Estonian:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Georgian: სტელა
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew:
 * Hungarian:
 * Ido:
 * Indonesian:
 * Irish: liagán greanta
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: ,
 * Javanese: prasasti
 * Korean: 석비
 * Latin: stela
 * Latvian: stēla
 * Lithuanian:
 * Macedonian: стела
 * Malayalam: ശിലാഫലകം
 * Minangkabau: batu basurek, prasasti
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: stele
 * Nynorsk: stele
 * Persian: سنگ یادبود
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: сте̏ла
 * Roman:
 * Slovak: stéla
 * Slovene:
 * Sorbian:
 * Lower Sorbian: stela
 * Upper Sorbian: stela
 * Spanish:
 * Sundanese: prasasti
 * Swedish:
 * Tamil: சிற்பத்தூண்
 * Telugu: స్టీలే
 * Thai: ศิลาจารึก
 * Turkish:, stela
 * Ugaritic: 𐎒𐎋𐎐
 * Ukrainian: сте́ла
 * Vietnamese:
 * Waray-Waray: estela

Etymology 2
From 1886, from.

Noun

 * 1)  The central core of a plant's root and stem system, especially including the vascular tissue and developed from the plerome.

Translations

 * Finnish:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian: ,
 * Russian:

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) star

Etymology
From, from 1886 , from.

Noun

 * , the central core of a plant's root and stem system, especially including the vascular tissue and developed from the plerome.

Noun

 * 1) stars

Noun

 * 1)  (all senses)

Etymology 1
From, , , from.

Noun

 * 1) steel

Etymology 2
, ; a parallel etymology to.

Noun

 * 1) A stem or trunk of a plant.
 * 2) A ladder's side or half.
 * 3) A handle or shaft.
 * 1) A handle or shaft.

Etymology 1
From.

Noun

 * 1)  A tall, slender stone monument, often with writing carved into its surface

Etymology 2
From, from.

Etymology 1
From.

Noun

 * 1)  tall, slender stone monument, often with writing carved into its surface