στέλλω

• From Proto-Hellenic *stéľľō, from Proto-Indo-European *stel- (“to set”).
• Others argue for a Proto-Indo-European *skʷel-, based on Aeolic forms, but this is suspect.

στέλλω • (stéllō)

1. I make ready, prepare; I furnish, dress
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 4.294:

     οὓς ἑτάρους στέλλοντα καὶ ὀτρύνοντα μάχεσθαι

     hoùs hetárous stéllonta kaì otrúnonta mákhesthai

     arraying his comrades and urging them to fight

   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 2.287:

     νῆα θοὴν στελέω καὶ ἅμ’ ἕψομαι αὐτός

     nêa thoḕn steléō kaì hám’ hépsomai autós

     I will rig a swift ship and myself be your companion

   • 405 BCE, Euripides, The Bacchae 821:

     στεῖλαί νυν ἀμφὶ χρωτὶ βυσσίνους πέπλους.

     steîlaí nun amphì khrōtì bussínous péplous.

     Put linen clothes on your body then.

   • 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 7.26:

     στρατὸν κάλλιστα ἐσταλμένον

     stratòn kállista estalménon

     the best-equipped army

2. I dispatch, send; (middle, passive) I set out, journey
   • 525 BCE – 455 BCE, Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound 389:

     σαφῶς μ’ ἐς οἶκον σὸς λόγος στέλλει πάλιν.

     saphôs m’ es oîkon sòs lógos stéllei pálin.

     Clearly the manner of your speech orders me back home.

   • 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 3.53:

     ὁ μὲν Περίανδρος ἐστέλλετο ἐς τὴν Κέρκυραν

     ho mèn Períandros estélleto es tḕn Kérkuran

     Periander set out to Corcyra

   1. (active intransitive in passive sense) I set forth, prepare to go
      • 409 BCE, Sophocles, Philoctetes 571:

        κεῖνός γ’ ἐπ’ ἄλλον ἄνδρ’ ὁ Τυδέως τε παῖς ἔστελλον

        keînós g’ ep’ állon ándr’ ho Tudéōs te paîs éstellon

        Oh, he and the son of Tydeus were readying for pursuit of another man

3. I summon, fetch
   • 429 BCE, Sophocles, Oedipus the King 860:

     ἀλλ’ ὅμως τὸν ἐργάτην πέμψον τινὰ στελοῦντα

     all’ hómōs tòn ergátēn pémpson tinà steloûnta

     but nevertheless send someone to fetch the peasant

4. I gather up; I furl a sail
   • 470 BCE, Aeschylus, The Suppliants 723:

     αὐτὴ δ’ ἡγεμὼν ὑπὸ χθόνα στείλασα λαῖφος

     autḕ d’ hēgemṑn hupò khthóna steílasa laîphos

     but the leading ship herself has furled her sail and draws near the shore

   1. I check, repress
      • 405 BCE, Euripides, The Bacchae 669:

        ἢ λόγον στειλώμεθα

        ḕ lógon steilṓmetha

        or should repress my report

   2. (medicine) I bind, make costive
   3. (middle) I restrict my diet

• Greek: στέλνω (stélno, “to send”) & compounds with στέλλω (stéllo).

• στέλλω in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• στέλλω in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
• στέλλω in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• G4724 in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979
• Sihler, Andrew L. (1995) New Comparative Grammar of Greek and Latin, Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN

From Ancient Greek στέλλω (stéllō, “I send”). Stems στελ-, σταλ-, στολ-.

• IPA^(key): /ˈste.lo/
• Hyphenation: στέλ‧λω

στέλλω • (stéllo) (simple past έστειλα, passive στέλλομαι) found in compounds

1. ancient form of the modern verb στέλνω (stélno) - found as second combining form (see Compounds)

• Conjugated in its compound forms.

and see Derivatives of στέλνω