στατήρ

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From ἵστημι (hístēmi, “to put, place, set”) +‎ -τήρ (-tḗr), hence literally "that which sets, settles".

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /sta.tɛ̌ːr/ → /staˈtir/ → /staˈtir/

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

Noun

στᾰτήρ • (stătḗr) m (genitive στᾰτῆρος); third declension

1. a weight, a standard
2. a stater (a type of coin)

Declension

Third declension of ὁ στᾰτήρ; τοῦ στᾰτῆρος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ στᾰτήρ ho stătḗr	τὼ στᾰτῆρε tṑ stătêre	οἱ στᾰτῆρες hoi stătêres
Genitive	τοῦ στᾰτῆρος toû stătêros	τοῖν στᾰτήροιν toîn stătḗroin	τῶν στᾰτήρων tôn stătḗrōn
Dative	τῷ στᾰτῆρῐ tôi stătêrĭ	τοῖν στᾰτήροιν toîn stătḗroin	τοῖς στᾰτῆρσῐ / στᾰτῆρσῐν toîs stătêrsĭ(n)
Accusative	τὸν στᾰτῆρᾰ tòn stătêră	τὼ στᾰτῆρε tṑ stătêre	τοὺς στᾰτῆρᾰς toùs stătêrăs
Vocative	στᾰτήρ stătḗr	στᾰτῆρε stătêre	στᾰτῆρες stătêres
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• Greek: στατήρας (statíras)
• → Aramaic:
  • Imperial Aramaic: 𐡎𐡕𐡕𐡓 (sttr), 𐡎𐡕𐡕𐡓𐡉 (sttry)
  • Hatran Aramaic: 𐣠𐣮𐣵𐣣𐣠 (ʾstrʾ /⁠ʾestērā⁠/)
  • Jewish Babylonian Aramaic: אׅיסְתֵּירָא (ʾestēyrā)
  • Classical Syriac: ܐܸܣܬܹ݁ܝܪܵܐ (ʾestēyrā), ܐܸܣܬܹ݁ܪܵܐ (ʾestērā)
  • → Coptic: ⲥⲁⲑⲉⲣⲓ (satheri)
• → Demotic: sttr
• → French: statère
• → Gandhari: 𐨯𐨟𐨅𐨪 (satera), 𐨯𐨡𐨅𐨪 (sadera)
• → Khotanese: [script needed] (satīra), [script needed] (sera)
• → Latin: stater
• → Sogdian:
  • Buddhist 𐼼𐽂𐼰𐼷𐽀 (stʼyr /⁠stēr⁠/)
  • Sogdian: 𐼼𐽂𐼰𐼷𐽀 (stʼyr /⁠stēr⁠/)
  • Manichaean 𐫘𐫤𐫀𐫏𐫡 (stʼyr /⁠stēr⁠/)
• → Middle Persian: [Book Pahlavi needed] (styl /⁠stēr⁠/)
  • Persian: ستیر (setêr)
  • → Arabic: إِسْتَار (ʔistār)
    • → Ge'ez: አስታር (ʾästar)
    • → Tigre: ስታቴር (stater)
    • → Laz: ასთანი (astani)
    • → Middle Georgian: ასთირი (astiri), ასთინი (astini), ასთარი (astari), ასთანი (astani), ათარი (atari)
  • → Ashokan Prakrit: *𑀲𑀢𑁂𑀭 (*satera)
    • → Sauraseni Prakrit:
      • Gujarati: શેર (śer)
      • Hindi: सेर (ser)
    • → Maharastri Prakrit:
      • Marathi: शेर (śer)

Further reading

• “στατήρ”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• στατήρ 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
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.