ἄστυ

From ϝάστυ (wástu), from Proto-Hellenic *wástu; cognate with Sanskrit वस्तु (vástu, “house”), Latin Vesta, Tocharian A waṣt, Tocharian B ost.^[1]

ἄστῠ • (ástŭ) n (genitive ἄστεως); third declension

1. a town, city; the inhabited part of a city in particular, rather than the citadel
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 2.332:

     Ἀλλ’ ἄγε μίμνετε πάντες ἐϋκνήμιδες Ἀχαιοὶ
     αὐτοῦ εἰς ὅ κεν ἄστυ μέγα Πριάμοιο ἕλωμεν.

     All’ áge mímnete pántes eüknḗmides Akhaioì
     autoû eis hó ken ástu méga Priámoio hélōmen.

     Nay, come, abide ye all, ye well-greaved Achaeans, even where ye are, until we take the great city of Priam.

• πόλῐς (pólĭs), πτόλις (ptólis), πτολίεθρον (ptolíethron)

• Greek: άστυ (ásty)

• “ἄστυ”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ἄστυ”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “ἄστυ”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• ἄστυ in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• ἄστυ in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• ἄστυ in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2025)
• “ἄστυ”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• ἄστυ 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
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • city idem, page 133.
  • town idem, page 884.