σαστήρ

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Unknown.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /sas.tɛ̌ːr/ → /sasˈtir/ → /sasˈtir/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /sas.tɛ̌ːr/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /sasˈte̝r/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /sasˈtir/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /sasˈtir/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /sasˈtir/

Noun

σαστήρ • (sastḗr) m (genitive σαστῆρος); third declension

1. (hapax) The meaning of this term is uncertain.
   • c. 300-280 BCE, Sylloge Inscriptionum Graecarum 360.24:

     […] τὸν σαστῆρα τῷ δάμῳ διαφυλαξῶ […]

     […] tòn sastêra tôi dámōi diaphulaxô […]

     […] I shall safeguard the saster for the people […]

Declension

Third declension of ὁ σαστήρ; τοῦ σαστῆρος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ σαστήρ ho sastḗr	τὼ σαστῆρε tṑ sastêre	οἱ σαστῆρες hoi sastêres
Genitive	τοῦ σαστῆρος toû sastêros	τοῖν σαστήροιν toîn sastḗroin	τῶν σαστήρων tôn sastḗrōn
Dative	τῷ σαστῆρῐ tôi sastêri	τοῖν σαστήροιν toîn sastḗroin	τοῖς σαστῆρσῐ / σαστῆρσῐν toîs sastêrsi(n)
Accusative	τὸν σαστῆρᾰ tòn sastêra	τὼ σαστῆρε tṑ sastêre	τοὺς σαστῆρᾰς toùs sastêras
Vocative	σαστήρ sastḗr	σαστῆρε sastêre	σαστῆρες sastêres
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Further reading

• “σαστήρ”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press