The latter means wood (a live tree, timber or an object constructed of wood); in earlier forms of Greek, the former term meant an upright stake or pole, but in Koine Greek it was used also to mean a cross.
后者意指木材（活的树、木料或由木建造成的物体）；在希腊语的早期形式中，前一个词意味着一个直立的桩或杆，但在科伊内希腊语中，它也用来指十字架。