στατήρ

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From ἵστημι (hístēmi, “to put, place, set”) +‎ -τήρ (-tḗr), hence literally "that which sets, settles".

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /sta.tɛ̌ːr/ → /staˈtir/ → /staˈtir/

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

Noun

στᾰτήρ • (statḗr) m (genitive στᾰτῆρος); third declension

1. a weight, a standard
2. a stater (a type of coin)

Declension

Third declension of ὁ στᾰτήρ; τοῦ στᾰτῆρος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ στᾰτήρ ho statḗr	τὼ στᾰτῆρε tṑ statêre	οἱ στᾰτῆρες hoi statêres
Genitive	τοῦ στᾰτῆρος toû statêros	τοῖν στᾰτήροιν toîn statḗroin	τῶν στᾰτήρων tôn statḗrōn
Dative	τῷ στᾰτῆρῐ tôi statêri	τοῖν στᾰτήροιν toîn statḗroin	τοῖς στᾰτῆρσῐ / στᾰτῆρσῐν toîs statêrsi(n)
Accusative	τὸν στᾰτῆρᾰ tòn statêra	τὼ στᾰτῆρε tṑ statêre	τοὺς στᾰτῆρᾰς toùs statêras
Vocative	στᾰτήρ statḗr	στᾰτῆρε statêre	στᾰτῆρες statêres
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• Greek: στατήρας (statíras)
• → Aramaic:
  • Imperial Aramaic: 𐡎𐡕𐡕𐡓 (sttr), 𐡎𐡕𐡕𐡓𐡉 (sttry)
  • Hatran Aramaic: 𐣠𐣮𐣵𐣣𐣠 (ʾstrʾ /⁠ʾestērā⁠/)
  • Jewish Babylonian Aramaic: אׅיסְתֵּירָא (ʾestēyrā)
  • Classical Syriac: ܐܸܣܬܹ݁ܝܪܵܐ (ʾestēyrā), ܐܸܣܬܹ݁ܪܵܐ (ʾestērā)
  • → Coptic: ⲥⲁⲑⲉⲣⲓ (satheri)
• → Demotic: sttr
• → French: statère
• → Gandhari: 𐨯𐨟𐨅𐨪 (satera), 𐨯𐨡𐨅𐨪 (sadera)
• → Khotanese: [script needed] (satīra), [script needed] (sera)
• → Latin: stater
• → Sogdian:
  • Buddhist 𐼼𐽂𐼰𐼷𐽀 (stʼyr /⁠stēr⁠/)
  • Sogdian: 𐼼𐽂𐼰𐼷𐽀 (stʼyr /⁠stēr⁠/)
  • Manichaean 𐫘𐫤𐫀𐫏𐫡 (stʼyr /⁠stēr⁠/)
• → Middle Persian: [Book Pahlavi needed] (styl /⁠stēr⁠/)
  • Persian: ستیر (setêr)
  • → Arabic: إِسْتَار (ʔistār)
    • → Ge'ez: አስታር (ʾästar)
    • → Tigre: ስታቴር (stater)
  • → Ashokan Prakrit: *𑀲𑀢𑁂𑀭 (*satera)
    • → Sauraseni Prakrit:
      • Gujarati: શેર (śer)
      • Hindi: सेर (ser)
    • → Maharastri Prakrit:
      • Marathi: शेर (śer)

Further reading

• “στατήρ”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• στατήρ 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
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.