ἀστήρ

From Proto-Hellenic *astḗr, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂stḗr. Cognates include Latin stēlla, Gothic 𐍃𐍄𐌰𐌹𐍂𐌽𐍉 (stairnō), English star, Dutch ster, German Stern, Danish stjerne, Swedish stjärna, Icelandic stjarna, Old Armenian աստղ (astł), Persian ستاره‎ (setāre) and Sanskrit तारा (tārā).

ᾰ̓στήρ • (astḗr) m (genitive ᾰ̓στέρος); third declension

1. a celestial body (star, planet, and other lights in the sky such as meteors).
2. illustrious person
3. starfish
4. a type of songbird

• ᾰ̓́στρον (ástron)

• ᾰ̓στερῐ́ζω (asterízō), ᾰ̓στρῐ́ζω (astrízō)
• ᾰ̓στερῐκός (asterikós), ᾰ̓στρῐκός (astrikós)
• ᾰ̓στέρῐος (astérios)
  • ᾰ̓στέρῐον (astérion)
• ᾰ̓στερῐ́σκος (asterískos)

• ⇒ Greek: αστέρας (astéras)
• → Latin: astēr

• ἀστήρ in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ἀστήρ in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ἀστήρ in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• ἀστήρ in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
• ἀστήρ in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• ἀστήρ in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2019)
• ἀστήρ in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• G792 in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • star idem, page 811.