warp (in the loom); thread (on distaff); thread of life spun by the Fates
Latin word, found 69 times in the texts on Socratos.
Ovid, Heroides 3.76: Et minuent plenas stamina nostra colos.
Ovid, Ars Amatoria 1.695: Reïce succinctos operoso stamine fusos!
Ovid, Metamorphoses 6.55: (tela iugo iuncta est, stamen secernit harundo);
All forms of stamen