Word Origin Summary

Στάσις is attested in Ancient Greek. Follow the ancestry chain below to trace where this term came from and how it branched into later descendants.

Ancestry Chain

1. *stéh₂tisProto-Indo-Europeaninherited from
2. *státisProto-Hellenicinherited from

Descendants and Related Terms

• -staza

  Polish · derived from

• estasi

  Catalan · borrowed from

• Homöostase

  German · derived from

• στάση

  Greek · inherited from

• homeostasis

  English · derived from

• stasis

  English · derived from

• stáis

  Irish · derived from

• stase

  Norwegian Nynorsk · derived from

What You Can Explore

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• 🔤Cognates — related words in other languages sharing the same root