Talk:King Ezana's Stele

Stela/stele
It's fine to use either spelling, but the plural stelae only works if you're using -a. The other one is Greek and just turns into pedestrian steles. Tmyk. — Llywelyn II   14:09, 22 November 2013 (UTC)
 * Point taken, but since this is the English (rather than the Greek, or Spanish or Welsh) Wikipedia, I've moved the article to the common English name of King Ezana's Stele.  --BushelCandle 06:24, 26 April 2021 (UTC)


 * Stele is frequently pluralized irregularly as stelae, which is also used as a plural form of the more Latinized singular form stela. The anglicized Greek plural stelai has been used since the late 19th century but is less common than steles.
 * stele (n.) "upright slab," usually inscribed, 1820, from Greek stēlē "standing block, slab," especially one bearing an inscription, such as a gravestone, from PIE *stal-na-, suffixed form of root *stel- "to put, stand, put in order," with derivatives referring to a standing object or place. Related: Stelar.