ἄστυ
See also: άστυ
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From ϝάστυ (wástu), from Proto-Hellenic *wástu, with possible connection with Sanskrit वस्तु (vastu, “house”), Latin verna, Tocharian A waṣt and Tocharian B ost.[1]
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /ás.ty/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈas.ty/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈas.ty/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈas.ty/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈas.ti/
Noun
ἄστῠ • (ástu) n (genitive ἄστεως); third declension
- a town, city; the inhabited part of a city in particular, rather than the citadel
- 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 2.332
- ἀλλ’ ἄγε μίμνετε πάντες ἐϋκνήμιδες Ἀχαιοὶ
αὐτοῦ εἰς ὅ κεν ἄστυ μέγα Πριάμοιο ἕλωμεν- all’ áge mímnete pántes eüknḗmides Akhaioì
autoû eis hó ken ástu méga Priámoio hélōmen
- Nay, come, abide ye all, ye well-greaved Achaeans, even where ye are, until we take the great city of Priam.
- all’ áge mímnete pántes eüknḗmides Akhaioì
- ἀλλ’ ἄγε μίμνετε πάντες ἐϋκνήμιδες Ἀχαιοὶ
Inflection
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | τὸ ᾰ̓́στῠ tò ástu |
τὼ ᾰ̓́στει tṑ ástei |
τᾰ̀ ᾰ̓́στη / ᾰ̓́στεᾰ tà ástē / ástea | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τοῦ ᾰ̓́στεως toû ásteōs |
τοῖν ᾰ̓στέοιν toîn astéoin |
τῶν ᾰ̓́στεων tôn ásteōn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῷ ᾰ̓́στει tôi ástei |
τοῖν ᾰ̓στέοιν toîn astéoin |
τοῖς ᾰ̓́στεσῐ(ν) toîs ástesi(n) | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὸ ᾰ̓́στῠ tò ástu |
τὼ ᾰ̓́στει tṑ ástei |
τᾰ̀ ᾰ̓́στη / ᾰ̓́στεᾰ tà ástē / ástea | ||||||||||
| Vocative | ᾰ̓́στῠ ástu |
ᾰ̓́στει ástei |
ᾰ̓́στη / ᾰ̓́στεᾰ ástē / ástea | ||||||||||
| Notes: | This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension. | ||||||||||||
Synonyms
- πόλῐς (pólis), πτόλις (ptólis), πτολίεθρον (ptolíethron)
Derived terms
Terms derived from ἄστυ (ástu)
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Related terms
Descendants
- Greek: άστυ (ásty)
References
- ἄστυ in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- ἄστυ in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- ἄστυ in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- ἄστυ in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- ἄστυ in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- ἄστυ in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2018)
- ἄστυ in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
- ἄστυ in Trapp, Erich, et al. (1994–2007) Lexikon zur byzantinischen Gräzität besonders des 9.-12. Jahrhunderts [the Lexicon of Byzantine Hellenism, Particularly the 9th–12th Centuries], Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- ↑ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010), “ἄστυ”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), volume I, with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, page 158
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