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Ancient Greek
Etymology From ϝάστυ ( wástu ) , from Proto-Hellenic *wástu Sanskrit वस्तु ( vástu , “ house ” ) , Latin Vesta Tocharian A waṣt Tocharian B ost [ 1]
Pronunciation
IPA (key ) : /ás.ty/ → /ˈas.ty/ → /ˈas.ti/
Noun ἄστῠ • (ástŭ ) n genitive ἄστεως third declension
a town , city ; the inhabited part of a city in particular, rather than the citadel 800 BCE BCE ,
Homer ,
Iliad 2.332 :
Ἀλλ’ ἄγε μίμνετε πάντες ἐϋκνήμιδες Ἀχαιοὶἄστυ μέγα Πριάμοιο ἕλωμεν. All’ áge mímnete pántes eüknḗmides Akhaioìástu méga Priámoio hélōmen. Nay, come, abide ye all, ye well-greaved Achaeans, even where ye are, until we take the great city of Priam.
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Further reading “ἄστυ Liddell & Scott (1940 ) A Greek–English Lexicon
“ἄστυ Liddell & Scott (1889 ) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon , New York: Harper & Brothers
“ἄστυ Autenrieth, Georg (1891 ) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges , New York: Harper and Brothers
ἄστυ Bailly, Anatole (1935 ) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français ἄστυ Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924 ) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition , Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963 ἄστυ Diccionario Griego–Español “ἄστυ Slater, William J. (1969 ) Lexicon to Pindar , Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
ἄστυ 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 Woodhouse, S. C. (1910 ) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language city idem, page 133.town idem, page 884.