ἄστυρον

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From ἄστυ (ástu, “city, town”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ás.ty.ron/ → /ˈas.ty.ron/ → /ˈas.ti.ron/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /ás.ty.ron/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈas.ty.ron/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈas.ty.ron/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈas.ty.ron/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈas.ti.ron/

Noun

ἄστῠρον • (ásturon) n (genitive ἀστῠ́ρου); second declension

1. small city or town

Inflection

Second declension of τὸ ἄστῠρον; τοῦ ἀστῠ́ρου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τὸ ἄστῠρον tò ásturon	τὼ ἀστῠ́ρω tṑ astúrō	τᾰ̀ ἄστῠρᾰ tà ástura
Genitive	τοῦ ἀστῠ́ρου toû astúrou	τοῖν ἀστῠ́ροιν toîn astúroin	τῶν ἀστῠ́ρων tôn astúrōn
Dative	τῷ ἀστῠ́ρῳ tôi astúrōi	τοῖν ἀστῠ́ροιν toîn astúroin	τοῖς ἀστῠ́ροις toîs astúrois
Accusative	τὸ ἄστῠρον tò ásturon	τὼ ἀστῠ́ρω tṑ astúrō	τᾰ̀ ἄστῠρᾰ tà ástura
Vocative	ἄστῠρον ásturon	ἀστῠ́ρω astúrō	ἄστῠρᾰ ástura
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• Ἄστυρα (Ástura)

Further reading

• “ἄστυρον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ἄστυρον in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• ἄστυρον in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)