stele

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. An upright (or formerly upright) slab containing engraved or painted decorations or inscriptions; a stela.
    — A superior class of members...had their names inscribed upon a marble stélé or column.
  2. The central core of a plant's root and stem system, especially including the vascular tissue and developed from the plerome.
    — The stele may have—in different structures—one to many protoxylem (primitive wood) groups, and is accordingly described as monarch...diarch...triarch...tetrarch...polyarch.
  3. Any carved or engraved surface. uncommon
    — Two large hieroglyphed steles incised upon the face of a projecting mass of boldly rounded cliff.
  4. An acroterion, the decoration on the ridge of an ancient Greek building such as a temple. obsolete
    — Stele. The ornaments on the ridge of a Greek temple, answering to the antefixæ on the summit of the flank entablatures, are thus designated.

词形变化

steles plural stelai plural stélé alternative stelè alternative steles plural

词汇关系

近义词
stela
衍生词
astelic bistelic gamostele monostele polystele
相关词
orthostat

词源

词源 1
From Ancient Greek στήλη (stḗlē, “upright rock; pillar; column”), plural form στῆλαι (stêlai). Doublet of stela.
词源 2
From 1886 French stèle, from Ancient Greek στήλη (stḗlē, “upright rock; pillar; column”).
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