στέαρ, τό,
genitive στέατος [see. entry near the end]; contraction στῆρ, [[ “PCair.Zen.” 703.2, 6 (3rd c.BC), 2nd c.AD: Archigenes Medicus cited in 2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus 12.861, 2nd c.AD(?): Theodotion LXX “Bel.” 27] LXX+3rd c.BC+], genitive στῆτος [[ “PCair.Zen.” 176.183 (3rd c.BC)] Refs 3rd c.BC+]; also στεῖαρ, genitive στείατος [[ 4th-5th c.AD: Choeroboscus Grammaticus “Scholia in Theodosii Canones” 1.350 ] Refs 4th c.AD+] H.:—hard fat, suet, such as ruminating animals have, opposed to πιμελή (soft fat), ἐκ δὲ στέατος ἔνεικε μέγαν τροχόν a large cake of suet, [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 21.178; οὔτε πιμελὴν οὔτε στέαρ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “de Partibus Animalium” 651a26; τὸ τῶν ἰχθύων σ. πιμελῶδες [prev. author] “HA” 520a21, +others ] Refs 8th c.BC+]
__2 any animal fat, σ. τῆς ἄρκτου [[ 4th-3rd c.BC: Theophrastus Philosophus “de Odoribus” 63; σ. δελφίνων 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 5.4.28; frequently in LXX (LXX.Lev.3.15, 16, 17, +others); also “PRev.Laws” 50.14 (3rd c.BC), “PCair.Zen.” [prev. cited] ] LXX+5th c.BC+]; so σ. χήνειον, ὀρνίθειον, etc., [[ 1st c.AD: Dioscorides (Dioscurides) Medicus 2.76. ] Refs 1st c.AD+]
__II ={σταῖς} (which see), dough made from flour of spelt, [[ 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “περὶ γυναικείης φύσιος” 27 (but σταῖς is probable reading), 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Problemata” 879a10, 4th-3rd c.BC: Theophrastus Philosophus “Historia Plantarum” 9.20.2, LXX.Psa.80(81).17, +others, 1st c.BC-1st c.AD: Strabo Geographus 17.2.5 (citing 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.36, where σταῖς is in our text). [Gen. στέατος _disyllable_, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” [same place] ] LXX+8th c.BC+]; στέᾱτι trisyllable, [[ 4th-3rd c.BC: Diphilus Comicus 119 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; compare στεάτιον.] (Prob. from *στᾱyαρ, cf. Sanskrit styāyate 'congeal, grow hard'.)