στεῖρα

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Ancient Greek

Etymology

From adjective στεῖρος (steîros).

Pronunciation

(5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /stêː.ra/
(1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈsti.ra/
(4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈsti.ra/
(10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈsti.ra/
(15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈsti.ra/

Noun

στεῖρα • (steîra) f (genitive στείρας); first declension

heifer (a cow that has not calved)
barren woman
forepart of a ship's keel, continued into the stem or cutwater

Further reading

“στεῖρα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
στεῖρα in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
στεῖρα in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963

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