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Ancient Greek
Etymology
ἀστήρ (astḗr, “star”) + ὀπή (opḗ, “sight, hole”)
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /as.tra.pɛ̌ː/ → /as.traˈpi/ → /as.traˈpi/
Noun
ἀστρᾰπή • (astrapḗ) f (genitive ἀστρᾰπῆς); first declension
- lightning
Inflection
Descendants
Further reading
- “ἀστραπή”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ἀστραπή”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- ἀστραπή in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- ἀστραπή in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
- G796 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
- ἀστραπή 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.