στῦλος
στῦλος, ὁ (fem. at Epidaurus, IG 42(1).102.66 , al.(iv B.C.), but also masc. there, ib. 109iii92 (iii B.C.)),
A). pillar ( = κίων acc. to 6.544 ), esp. as a support or bearing, 2.169 , IGll.cc.; στέγης Ag. 898 ; δόμων IT 50 ; ς. μονόλιθοι BGU 1713 (ii/iii A.D.): metaph., ς.. . οἴκων εἰσὶ παῖδες ἄρσενες IT 57 , cf. Ep.Gal. 2.9 , 1 Ep.Ti. 3.15 .
3). wooden pole, Fr. 203 , 1.22.4 ;[σκηνῆς] tent-poles, uprights, opp. διατόναια, PCair.Zen. 353.9 (iii B.C.); plank, Art. 47 .
4). stile for writing on waxed tablets; wrongly used in this sense by Greek speakers at Alexandria and in the East acc. to ap. Anat.Ad xiv (Arabic version, ii p.183 ed. M. Simon, Leipzig 1906 ); cf. στυλοειδής.