στατήρ
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From ἵστημι (hístēmi, “to put, place, set”) + -τήρ (-tḗr), hence literally "that which sets, settles".
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /sta.tɛ̌ːr/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /staˈte̝r/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /staˈtir/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /staˈtir/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /staˈtir/
Noun
στᾰτήρ • (stătḗr) m (genitive στᾰτῆρος); third declension
Declension
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ὁ στᾰτήρ ho stătḗr |
τὼ στᾰτῆρε tṑ stătêre |
οἱ στᾰτῆρες hoi stătêres | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τοῦ στᾰτῆρος toû stătêros |
τοῖν στᾰτήροιν toîn stătḗroin |
τῶν στᾰτήρων tôn stătḗrōn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῷ στᾰτῆρῐ tōî stătêrĭ |
τοῖν στᾰτήροιν toîn stătḗroin |
τοῖς στᾰτῆρσῐ / στᾰτῆρσῐν toîs stătêrsĭ(n) | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὸν στᾰτῆρᾰ tòn stătêră |
τὼ στᾰτῆρε tṑ stătêre |
τοὺς στᾰτῆρᾰς toùs stătêrăs | ||||||||||
| Vocative | στᾰτήρ stătḗr |
στᾰτῆρε stătêre |
στᾰτῆρες stătêres | ||||||||||
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Descendants
- Greek: στατήρας (statíras)
- → Aramaic:
- Imperial Aramaic: 𐡎𐡕𐡕𐡓 (sttr), 𐡎𐡕𐡕𐡓𐡉 (sttry)
- Hatran Aramaic: 𐣠𐣮𐣵𐣣𐣠 (ʾstrʾ /ʾestērā/)
- Jewish Babylonian Aramaic: אׅיסְתֵּירָא (ʾestēyrā)
- Classical Syriac: ܐܸܣܬܹ݁ܝܪܵܐ (ʾestēyrā), ܐܸܣܬܹ݁ܪܵܐ (ʾestērā)
- → Coptic: ⲥⲁⲑⲉⲣⲓ (satheri)
- → Demotic: sttr
- → French: statère
- → Gandhari: 𐨯𐨟𐨅𐨪 (satera), 𐨯𐨡𐨅𐨪 (sadera)
- → Khotanese: [script needed] (satīra), [script needed] (sera)
- → Latin: stater
- → Sogdian:
- Buddhist 𐼼𐽂𐼰𐼷𐽀 (stʼyr /stēr/)
- Sogdian: 𐼼𐽂𐼰𐼷𐽀 (stʼyr /stēr/)
- Manichaean 𐫘𐫤𐫀𐫏𐫡 (stʼyr /stēr/)
- → Middle Persian: [Book Pahlavi needed] (styl /stēr/)
- Persian: ستیر (setêr)
- → Arabic: إِسْتَار (ʔistār)
- → Ashokan Prakrit: *𑀲𑀢𑁂𑀭 (*satera)
Further reading
- “στατήρ”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- στατήρ 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
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.