στοᾶς (stoas)

στοᾶς is an Ancient Greek form of στοά, meaning “portico, colonnade”. It is the genitive singular feminine noun.

It can also be a form of Στοά, “Stoa — the Stoa (portico; the Stoic school)”. It is the genitive singular feminine noun.

Found 110 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 2.11.120: … ένης, Ἐπιγένης, Πρὸς τὴν ἑαυτοῦ θυγατέρα, Ἀριστοτέλης. τούτου φησὶν Ἡρακλείδης καὶ τὸν Ζήνωνα ἀκοῦσαι τὸν τῆς στοᾶς κτίστην. γηραιὸν δὲ τελευτῆσαί φησιν Ἕρμιππος, οἶνον προσενεγκάμενον ὅπως θᾶττον ἀποθάνοι. Ἔστι δὲ καὶ εἰς το …

Plutarch, Timoleon 39.6: ἐποιήσαντο δὲ τὴν ταφὴν τοῦ σώματος ἐν ἀγορᾷ, καὶ στοὰς ὕστερον περιβαλόντες καὶ παλαίστρας ἐνοικοδομήσαντες γυμνάσιον τοῖς νέοις ἀνῆκαν καὶ Τιμολεόντειον προσηγόρευσαν.

Plutarch, De fraterno amore 13: … α δυνάμεις· δυεῖν δʼ ἀδελφῶν· ἐκ μιᾶς μητρὸς καὶ πατρὸς ταὐτοῦ γεγονότων, οὐθεὶς ἑώρακε τὸν μὲν ὡς τὸν ἐκ τῆς Στοᾶς σοφόν, ὁμοῦ καλὸν εὔχαριν ἐλευθέριον ἔντιμον πλούσιον δεινὸν εἰπεῖν πολυμαθῆ φιλάνθρωπον τὸν δʼ ἕτερον αἰσχρὸ …

All forms of στοά (declension 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.