στεῖρος

From Proto-Hellenic *steřřos, from *ster-yos, from Proto-Indo-European *ster- (“barren”). Compare English steer, Albanian shterrë, Latin sterilis, Sanskrit स्तरी (starī).

στεῖρος • (steîros) m (feminine στεῖρα, neuter στεῖρον); first/second declension

1. barren, infertile
   • 50 CE – 100 CE, The Gospel of Luke 1:7
   • 50 CE – 100 CE, The Gospel of Luke 1:36
   • New Testament, Epistle to the Galatians 4:27
   • New Testament, Epistle to the Hebrews 11:11

• στεῖρα (steîra, “heifer, barren woman”)

• Greek: στείρος (steíros)

• “στεῖρος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “στεῖρος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• στεῖρος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• στεῖρος in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
• 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.
  • barren idem, page 63.
  • unfruitful idem, page 919.