στάς (stas)

στάς is an Ancient Greek form of ἵστημι, meaning “to make stand, set up; (mid./intrans.) to stand”. It is the aorist active participle nominative singular masculine.

Found 143 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 8.8.91: … ρω ταύρου. κοὐδὲν ἔλεξεν· βοῒ γὰρ πόθεν λόγος; φύσις οὐκ ἔδωκε μόσχῳ λάλον Ἄπιδι στόμα. παρὰ δʼ αὐτὸν λέχριος στὰς ἐλιχμήσατο στολήν, προφανῶς τοῦτο διδάσκων, Ἀποδύσῃ βιοτὴν ὅσον οὔπω. διὸ καί οἱ ταχέως ἦλθε μόρος, δεκάκις π …

Euripides, Heracleidae 837: ἀνὴρ δʼ ἐπʼ ἀνδρὶ στάς, ἐκαρτέρει μάχη·

Euripides, Orestes 116: καὶ στᾶσʼ ἐπʼ ἄκρου χώματος λέξον τάδε·

All forms of ἵστημι (conjugation table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Liddell-Scott-Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.