στεῖρα

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From adjective στεῖρος (steîros).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /stêː.ra/ → /ˈsti.ra/ → /ˈsti.ra/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /stêː.ra/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈsti.ra/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈsti.ra/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈsti.ra/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈsti.ra/

Noun

στεῖρα • (steîra) f (genitive στείρας); first declension

1. heifer (a cow that has not calved)
2. barren woman
3. forepart of a ship's keel, continued into the stem or cutwater

Further reading

• “στεῖρα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• στεῖρα in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• στεῖρα in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963