στερεός

• στερρός (sterrhós) – Attic

From Proto-Indo-European *ster (“strong, steady”), the same root of Old English starian (“to stare”), Proto-Germanic *staraz (“stiff”) and στεῖρος (steîros, “barren, sterile”).

στερεός • (stereós) m (feminine στερεᾱ́, neuter στερεόν); first/second declension

1. firm, solid
2. standard, of full value (of money)
3. (figuratively) stiff, stubborn
4. hard, stubborn, cruel
5. solid, cubic (of bodies and quantities)

• Ancient Greek: στερεός (stereós)
• → English: stereo-

• στερεός in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• στερεός in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• στερεός in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN

• (more colloquial): στέρεος (stéreos)

From Ancient Greek στερεός (stereós), from Proto-Indo-European *ster- (“stiff”). Cognate with Latin stultus, stolidus, sterilis, strēnuus, stīria. See also Old English steorfan (“to die”), Latin torpeō, Lithuanian tirpstu (“to become rigid”), Old Church Slavonic трупети (trupeti)

στερεός • (stereós) m (feminine στερεή or στερεά, neuter στερεό)

1. firm, solid (of foundations, bodies etc)

• στερεά γωνία f (stereá gonía, “solid angle”)