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▪ I. stele Antiq.
(stiːl, ‖ stiːliː)
[As a disyllable, repr. Gr. στήλη standing block or slab, f. Indo-germanic root *stā- to stand. As a monosyllable, anglicized form of the Gr. word; cf. F. stèle.
It is not always possible to decide which of the two pronunciations was intended by a writer using the word. The form stele is generally preferred for the singular, and stelæ (which belongs formally to stela) in the plural.]
1. a. An upright slab bearing sculptured designs or inscriptions. Sometimes loosely applied to any prepared surface on the face of a building, a rock, etc., covered with an inscription.
1820T. S. Hughes Trav. Sicily I. x. 303 A superior class of members..had their names inscribed upon a marble stélé or column. 1825Fosbroke Encycl. Antiq. 70 It appears, that when any one of the family died, a stelè to his memory was added to the tomb. 1833Sir H. Ellis Elgin Marbles (1846) II. 169 A large sepulchral stele. 1847J. Leitch tr. C. O. Müller's Anc. Art §224. 193 In Egypt they [obelisks] belonged to the class of steles (commemorative pillars). 1873Contemp. Rev. XXI. 568 With inscriptions either on steles or columns, or on tablets. 1877A. B. Edwards Up Nile vi. 143 Two large hieroglyphed steles incised upon the face of a projecting mass of boldly rounded cliff. 1882Cheyne Isaiah xvi. 12 note, The Stele of Mesha..was found in a depression between the two hillocks. 1884A. Lang Custom & Myth 285 The Australian stele, or grave-pillar.
b. Arch. (See quot.)
a1840Hosking Archit. in Encycl. Brit. (ed. 7) 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.
2. Bot. [ad. F. stèle (Van Tieghem & Douliot 1886, in Bull. de la Soc. bot. de France XXXIII. 216).] The axial cylinder in the stems and roots of vascular plants, developed from the plerome.
1895[see tetrarch n.2]. 1898H. C. Porter tr. Strasburger etc. Text-bk. Bot. 109 The so-called central cylinder, for which Van Tieghem has proposed the name stele (column).
▪ II. stele
obs. f. steal v., steel, stile. |