ἀστεροειδής

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From ἀστήρ (astḗr) +‎ -ειδής (-eidḗs)

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /as.te.ro.eː.dɛ̌ːs/ → /as.te.ro.iˈðis/ → /as.te.ro.iˈðis/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /as.te.ro.eː.dɛ̌ːs/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /as.te.ro.iˈde̝s/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /as.te.ro.iˈðis/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /as.te.ro.iˈðis/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /as.te.ro.iˈðis/

Adjective

ἀστεροειδής • (asteroeidḗs) m or f (neuter ἀστεροειδές); third declension

1. starlike, starry

Declension

Third declension of ἀ̆στεροειδής; ἀ̆στεροειδές (contracted, Attic)

Number		Singular			Dual			Plural
Case/Gender		Masculine / Feminine	Neuter		Masculine / Feminine	Neuter		Masculine / Feminine	Neuter
Nominative		ἀ̆στεροειδής asteroeidḗs	ἀ̆στεροειδές asteroeidés		ἀ̆στεροειδεῖ asteroeideî	ἀ̆στεροειδεῖ asteroeideî		ἀ̆στεροειδεῖς asteroeideîs	ἀ̆στεροειδῆ asteroeidê
Genitive		ἀ̆στεροειδοῦς asteroeidoûs	ἀ̆στεροειδοῦς asteroeidoûs		ἀ̆στεροειδοῖν asteroeidoîn	ἀ̆στεροειδοῖν asteroeidoîn		ἀ̆στεροειδῶν asteroeidôn	ἀ̆στεροειδῶν asteroeidôn
Dative		ἀ̆στεροειδεῖ asteroeideî	ἀ̆στεροειδεῖ asteroeideî		ἀ̆στεροειδοῖν asteroeidoîn	ἀ̆στεροειδοῖν asteroeidoîn		ἀ̆στεροειδέσῐ / ἀ̆στεροειδέσῐν asteroeidési(n)	ἀ̆στεροειδέσῐ / ἀ̆στεροειδέσῐν asteroeidési(n)
Accusative		ἀ̆στεροειδῆ asteroeidê	ἀ̆στεροειδές asteroeidés		ἀ̆στεροειδεῖ asteroeideî	ἀ̆στεροειδεῖ asteroeideî		ἀ̆στεροειδεῖς asteroeideîs	ἀ̆στεροειδῆ asteroeidê
Vocative		ἀ̆στεροειδές asteroeidés	ἀ̆στεροειδές asteroeidés		ἀ̆στεροειδεῖ asteroeideî	ἀ̆στεροειδεῖ asteroeideî		ἀ̆στεροειδεῖς asteroeideîs	ἀ̆στεροειδῆ asteroeidê
Derived forms		Adverb			Comparative			Superlative
		ἀ̆στεροειδῶς asteroeidôs			ἀ̆στεροειδέστερος asteroeidésteros			ἀ̆στεροειδέστᾰτος asteroeidéstatos
Notes:		This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

Descendants

• → Asturian: asteroide
• → Basque: asteroide
• → Bulgarian: астерои́д (asteroíd)
• → Catalan: asteroide
• → Czech: asteroid
• → Danish: asteroide
• → Dutch: asteroïde
• → English: asteroid
• → Estonian: asteroid
• → Finnish: asteroidi
• → French: astéroïde
• → Galician: asteroide
• → German: Asteroid
• → Indonesian: asteroid
• → Italian: asteroide
• → Latvian: asteroīds
• → Macedonian: астерои́д (asteroíd)
• → Norwegian Bokmål: asteroide
• → Norwegian Nynorsk: asteroide
• → Portuguese: asteroide
• → Romanian: asteroid
• → Russian: астеро́ид (asteróid)
  • → Kazakh: астероид (asteroid)
• → Serbo-Croatian: asteròīd
• → Slovene: asteroȋd
• → Spanish: asteroide
• → Swahili: asteroidi
• → Swedish: asteroid
• → Turkish: asteroit

Further reading

• ἀστεροειδής in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• ἀστεροειδής in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
• “ἀστεροειδής”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, 2011
• “ἀστεροειδής”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • starry idem, page 811.