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στερρός (A), ά, όν, also ός, όν E.Hec.296:—collat. form of στερεός,
A.stiff, firm, solid, “πόροι” Ti.Locr.101a (Comp.); of earth, opp. χαῦνος, v.l. in Arist.Pr.934b11; of water, frozen, “ῥεῖθρον” Hdn.6.7.7; also, hard, Plu.2.725d (Comp.); stiff, strong, “δόρυ” E.Supp.7.11; ς. ἀντικνήμιον stiff, numb with age, Ar.Ach.218: Comp. “-ότερος, δέρμα” Gal.6.32.
b. concrete, σῶμα (viz. the uvula), opp. πάθος, Aret.SA1.8.
2. hard, rugged, uneasy, “λέκτρα” E.Tr.114 (anap.); ς. τροφή hard fare, Luc.Lex. 23. Adv., “στερρότατα βιῶσαι” Id.Macr.8.
3. metaph., stubborn, hard, cruel, “ἀνάγκης ς. δῖναι” A.Pr.1052 (anap.), cf. E.Hec.1295 (anap.); ς. δαίμων, ἀλγηδόνες, Id.Andr.98, Med.1031; “ψυχή” Ar.Nu.420. Adv. στερρῶς stiffly, obstinately, X.An.3.1.22; “στερρῶς φέρειν χρὴ συμφοράς” Men.Mon.480; tightly, “ἐμφραττέτω τὰ ὦτα” Paul.Aeg.3.24.
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.

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