Ancient Greek

Noun

ἀστήρ • ‎(astḗr) m ‎(genitive ἀστέρος); 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

Inflection

Synonyms

• ἄστρον ‎(ástron)

Derived terms

• ἀστερίζω ‎(asterízō)/ ἀστρίζω ‎(astrízō)
• ἀστερικός ‎(asterikós)/ ἀστρικός ‎(astrikós)

Descendants

• Greek: αστέρι ‎(astéri)
• Latin: astēr

References

• 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 (© 2006–2016)
• 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, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • star idem, page 811.