ἀστήρ
Ancient Greek edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Hellenic *astḗr, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂stḗr. Cognates include Latin stēlla, Gothic 𐍃𐍄𐌰𐌹𐍂𐌽𐍉 (stairnō), English star, Dutch ster, German Stern, Danish stjerne, Swedish stjärna, Icelandic stjarna, Old Armenian աստղ (astł), Persian ستاره (setâre) and Sanskrit तारा (tārā).
Pronunciation edit
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /as.tɛ̌ːr/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /asˈte̝r/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /asˈtir/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /asˈtir/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /asˈtir/
Noun edit
ᾰ̓στήρ • (astḗr) m (genitive ᾰ̓στέρος); third declension
- a celestial body (star, planet, and other lights in the sky such as meteors).
- illustrious person
- starfish
- a type of songbird
Declension edit
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ὁ ᾰ̓στήρ ho astḗr |
τὼ ᾰ̓στέρε tṑ astére |
οἱ ᾰ̓στέρες hoi astéres | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ ᾰ̓στέρος toû astéros |
τοῖν ᾰ̓στέροιν toîn astéroin |
τῶν ᾰ̓στέρων tôn astérōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ ᾰ̓στέρῐ tôi astéri |
τοῖν ᾰ̓στέροιν toîn astéroin |
τοῖς ᾰ̓́στρᾰσῐ / ᾰ̓στρᾰ́σῐ toîs ástrasi / astrási | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸν ᾰ̓στέρᾰ tòn astéra |
τὼ ᾰ̓στέρε tṑ astére |
τοὺς ᾰ̓στέρᾰς toùs astéras | ||||||||||
Vocative | ᾰ̓στήρ astḗr |
ᾰ̓στέρε astére |
ᾰ̓στέρες astéres | ||||||||||
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Synonyms edit
- ᾰ̓́στρον (ástron)
Derived terms edit
Descendants edit
- ⇒ Greek: αστέρας (astéras)
- → Latin: astēr
- → English: aster
- Translingual: Aster, Cometaster, Thalassianthus aster
Further reading edit
- “ἀστήρ”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ἀστήρ”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “ἀστήρ”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- ἀστήρ in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
- ἀστήρ in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- ἀστήρ in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
- “ἀστήρ”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
- G792 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- star idem, page 811.