στοῖχος

From Proto-Hellenic *stóikʰos, from Proto-Indo-European *stóygʰ-os, from *steygʰ- (“go, climb”). By surface analysis, a nominal derivative of στείχω (steíkhō, “to walk, march”).^[1]

Cognate of Proto-Germanic *staigō, Latvian staĩga, Albanian shteg, Sanskrit स्तिघ्नोति (stighnoti).

στοῖχος • (stoîkhos) m (genitive στοίχου); second declension^[2]

1. row in an ascending series
   1. (architecture) the first course of masonry steps,
      • 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 2.125
   2. (architecture) course of bricks
      • Inscriptiones Graecae 2.463.58
      • Inscriptiones Graecae 2.1682.10
   3. file of persons marching one behind another, as in a procession
      • 391 BCE, Aristophanes, Assemblywomen 756
      • 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 2.102
      • 446 BCE – 386 BCE, Aristophanes, Fragments 79
   4. (of ships, columns)
      • 472 BCE, Aeschylus, The Persians 366
   5. (of soldiers, file)
      • 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 4.47
      • 155 CE – 235 CE, Cassius Dio, Collected Works 63.4
   6. (of deer swimming)
      • Oppian, Cynegetica 2.226
   7. (of the files of the chorus in plays)
      • ante 177 CE, Pollux, Onomasticon 4.108
      • ante 177 CE, Pollux, Onomasticon 4.109
   8. row of columns
      • Inscriptiones Graecae 22.1668.12
   9. (of factors)
      • 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Metaphysics 1092.b34
   10. (of verses)
       • Afric., Cest.Oxy. 412.51

   Synonym: στίχος (stíkhos)

2. a line of poles supporting hunting nets, into which the game were driven
   • 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Cynegeticus 6.10
   • 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Cynegeticus 6.21
3. turn
   • Oxyrhynchus Papyri 1119.12

• (antonym(s) of “a military file”): ζυγόν (zugón, “rank, line”)

• στίχος (stíkhos)
• στόχος (stókhos)

• ⇒ English: stoich.
• ⇒ German: stoich.