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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From ἀστήρ (astḗr) + νέμω (némō) + -ος (-os).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /as.tro.nó.mos/ → /as.troˈno.mos/ → /as.troˈno.mos/
Noun
ἀστρονόμος • (astronómos) m (genitive ἀστρονόμου); second declension
- astronomer
Declension
Descendants
Further reading
- ἀστρονόμος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- ἀστρονόμος in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
- “ἀστρονόμος”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, 2011
- “ἀστρονόμος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.