ἀστρονόμος
See also: αστρονόμος
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From ἀστήρ (astḗr) + νέμω (némō) + -ος (-os).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /as.tro.nó.mos/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /as.troˈno.mos/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /as.troˈno.mos/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /as.troˈno.mos/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /as.troˈno.mos/
Noun
ἀστρονόμος • (astronómos) m (genitive ἀστρονόμου); second declension
Declension
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ὁ ἀστρονόμος ho astronómos |
τὼ ἀστρονόμω tṑ astronómō |
οἱ ἀστρονόμοι hoi astronómoi | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τοῦ ἀστρονόμου toû astronómou |
τοῖν ἀστρονόμοιν toîn astronómoin |
τῶν ἀστρονόμων tôn astronómōn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῷ ἀστρονόμῳ tōî astronómōi |
τοῖν ἀστρονόμοιν toîn astronómoin |
τοῖς ἀστρονόμοις toîs astronómois | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὸν ἀστρονόμον tòn astronómon |
τὼ ἀστρονόμω tṑ astronómō |
τοὺς ἀστρονόμους toùs astronómous | ||||||||||
| Vocative | ἀστρονόμε astronóme |
ἀστρονόμω astronómō |
ἀστρονόμοι astronómoi | ||||||||||
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Descendants
- Greek: αστρονόμος (astronómos)
- → Latin: astronomus (see there for further descendants)
- → Macedonian: астроном (astronom)
- → Russian: астроном (astronom)
- → Kazakh: астроном (astronom)
Further reading
- ἀστρονόμος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- ἀστρονόμος in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2025)
- ἀστρονόμος, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011
- “ἀστρονόμος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- astronomer idem, page 48.