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Ancient Greek
Etymology
Traditionally connected to Latin Vesta and Sanskrit वसति (vasati, “to abide, dwell”); other theories include a connection with ἐσχάρᾱ (eskhárā, “hearth”) and Proto-Slavic *jestěja (“hearth”).[1] Beekes rejects all these theories and proposes a Pre-Greek origin.[2]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /hes.tí.aː/ → /esˈti.a/ → /esˈti.a/
Noun
ἑστίᾱ • (hestíā) f (genitive ἑστίᾱς); first declension
- hearth, fireplace, altar
- (figuratively) house, family
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References
Further reading
- ἑστία in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- ἑστία 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
- “ἑστία”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ἑστία”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.