Ancient Greek

Noun

ἄστῠ • ‎(ástu) n ‎(genitive ἄστεως); third declension

1. 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

     Nay, come, abide ye all, ye well-greaved Achaeans, even where ye are, until we take the great city of Priam.

Inflection

Derived terms

Related terms

• ἀστεῖος ‎(asteîos)
• ἀστικός ‎(astikós)
• ἀστῑ́της ‎(astī́tēs)
• ἀστός ‎(astós)
• ἄστῠδε ‎(ástude)
• ἄστῠρον ‎(ásturon)

Synonyms

• πόλῐς ‎(pólis), πτόλις ‎(ptólis), πτολίεθρον ‎(ptolíethron)

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 (© 2006–2016)
• 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.
  • city idem, page 133.
  • town idem, page 884.