στεῖρα
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From adjective στεῖρος (steîros).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /stêː.ra/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈsti.ra/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈsti.ra/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈsti.ra/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈsti.ra/
Noun
στεῖρα • (steîra) f (genitive στείρας); first declension
- heifer (a cow that has not calved)
- barren woman
- forepart of a ship's keel, continued into the stem or cutwater
References
- “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