ἀστήρ

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From Proto-Hellenic *astḗr, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂stḗr. Cognates include Latin stēlla, Gothic 𐍃𐍄𐌰𐌹𐍂𐌽𐍉 (stairnō), English star, Dutch ster, German Stern, Danish stjerne, Swedish stjärna, Icelandic stjarna, Old Armenian աստղ (astł), Persian ستاره‎ (setāre) and Sanskrit तारा (tārā).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /as.tɛ̌ːr/ → /asˈtir/ → /asˈtir/

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

Noun

ᾰ̓στήρ • (astḗr) m (genitive ᾰ̓στέρος); third declension

1. a celestial body (star, planet, and other lights in the sky such as meteors).
2. illustrious person
3. starfish
4. a type of songbird

Declension

Third declension of ὁ ἀστήρ; τοῦ ἀστέρος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ ἀστήρ ho astḗr	τὼ ἀστέρε tṑ astére	οἱ ἀστέρες hoi astéres
Genitive	τοῦ ἀστέρος toû astéros	τοῖν ἀστέροιν toîn astéroin	τῶν ἀστέρων tôn astérōn
Dative	τῷ ἀστέρῐ tôi astéri	τοῖν ἀστέροιν toîn astéroin	τοῖς ἄστρασι / ἀστράσι toîs ástrasi / astrási
Accusative	τὸν ἀστέρᾰ tòn astéra	τὼ ἀστέρε tṑ astére	τοὺς ἀστέρᾰς toùs astéras
Vocative	ἀστήρ astḗr	ἀστέρε astére	ἀστέρες astéres
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Synonyms

• ἄστρον (ástron)

Derived terms

• ἀστερίζω (asterízō), ἀστρίζω (astrízō)
• ἀστερικός (asterikós), ἀστρικός (astrikós)
• ἀστέριος (astérios)
  • ἀστέριον (astérion)
• ἀστερίσκος (asterískos)

Descendants

• ⇒ Greek: αστέρας (astéras)
• → Latin: astēr

Further reading

• ἀστήρ in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ἀστήρ in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ἀστήρ in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• ἀστήρ 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
• ἀστήρ in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• ἀστήρ in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2018)
• ἀστήρ in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• G792 in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • star idem, page 811.