ἵστημι
Etym. for σίστημι, redupl. from ΣΤΑ
I. Causal Tenses, "to make to stand", Lat. sisto,
II. intr. "to stand", Lat. sto,
A. Causal, "to make to stand, set", Hom., etc.:— "to set" men "in array, post" them, Il., Xen.
II. "to make to stand, stop, stay, check", Hom., etc.; στῆσαι τὴν φάλαγγα "to halt" it, Xen.; στ. τὰ ὄμματα "to fix" them, of a dying man, Plat.; ἵ. τὸ πρόσωπον, Lat. componere vultum, Xen.
III. "to set up", ἱστ. ἱστόν "to set up" the loom, or "to raise" the mast, Hom.; "to raise" buildings, statues, trophies, etc., Hdt., attic; ἱστάναι τινὰ χαλκοῦν "to set" him "up" in brass, raise a brasen statue to him, Dem.
2. "to raise, rouse, stir up", Hom., etc.; φυλόπιδα στήσειν "to stir up" strife, Od.; in aor1 mid., στήσασθαι μάχην id=Od.
3. "to set up, appoint", τινὰ βασιλέα Hdt.; Pass., ὁ σταθεὶς ὕπαρχος id=Hdt.
4. "to establish, institute" a festival, id=Hdt., attic
IV. "to place in the balance, weigh", Il., etc.; ἱστάναι τι πρός τι "to weigh" one thing "against" another, Hdt.
B. Pass. and intr. tenses of Act. "to be set or placed, to stand", Hom.:—often merely for εἶναι, "to be there", Od., etc.; with an adv. "to be in a" certain "state or condition", ἵνα χρείας ἕσταμεν in what a state of need we are, Soph., etc.
2. "to lie, be situated", Thuc.
II. "to stand still, stop, halt", Hom.: "to stand idle", Il.: "to stop, cease, be at rest", id=Il.
2. metaph. "to stand firm", Xen.
III. "to stand up, rise up", Il.; of a horse, ἵστασθαι ὀρθός to rear up, Hdt.
2. "to arise, begin", Il.
3. in marking Time, ἔαρος ἱσταμένοιο as spring "was beginning", Od.; ἕβδομος ἑστήκει μείς the seventh month "began", Il.; τοῦ μὲν φθίνοντος μηνός, τοῦ δ᾽ ἱσταμένοιο as one month ends and the next "begins", Od.; the month in Hom. being divided into "two" parts, ἱστάμενος and φθίνων; but in the attic Calendar, it fell into "three" decads, ἱστάμενος, μεσῶν, φθίνων, Hdt., Thuc.
4. "to be appointed", στῆναι ἐς ἀρχήν Hdt.